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Do you know of Trenton ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Trenton. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Trenton.

Our sources for Trenton (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Trenton other than they indicate that Trenton would be found somewhere in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1848 and closed  in 1905.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named Trenton ...

We found 40 communities that share the name Trenton.

There is one other community in Louisiana which is also named Trenton.

Beyond Louisiana, we know of another 39 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 39 communities, 38 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

  • Communities Located In Louisiana ...
    • De Soto Parish
      • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Trenton [De Soto Parish].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Jackson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Trenton [Jackson County].
    • Arkansas
      • Phillips County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Trenton [Phillips County].
    • California
      • Sonoma County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Trenton [Sonoma County].
    • Florida
      • Alachua County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Trenton [Alachua County].
      • Gilchrist County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Trenton [Gilchrist County].
    • Georgia
      • Dade County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Trenton [Dade County].
    • Illinois
      • Clinton County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Trenton [Clinton County].
    • Indiana
      • Blackford County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Trenton [Blackford County].
      • Randolph County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Trenton [Randolph County].
    • Iowa
      • Henry County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Trenton [Henry County].
    • Kansas
      • Kingman County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Trenton [Kingman County].
      • Labette County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Trenton [Labette County].
      • Miami County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Trenton [Miami County].
      • Saline County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Trenton [Saline County].
      • Shawnee County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Trenton [Shawnee County].
    • Kentucky
      • Todd County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Trenton [Todd County].
    • Maine
      • Hancock County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Trenton [Hancock County].
    • Maryland
      • Baltimore County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Trenton [Baltimore County].
    • Michigan
      • Wayne County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Trenton [Wayne County].
    • Minnesota
      • Freeborn County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Trenton [Freeborn County].
    • Mississippi
      • Smith County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Trenton [Smith County].
    • Missouri
      • Grundy County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Trenton [Grundy County].
    • Nebraska
      • Hitchcock County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Trenton [Hitchcock County].
    • Nevada
      • Lander County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Trenton [Lander County].
    • New Jersey
      • Mercer County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Trenton [Mercer County].
    • New Mexico
      • Curry County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Trenton [Curry County].
    • New York
      • Oneida County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Trenton [Oneida County].
    • North Carolina
      • Jones County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Trenton [Jones County].
    • North Dakota
      • Williams County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Trenton [Williams County].
    • Nova Scotia
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Trenton.
    • Ohio
      • Butler County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Trenton [Butler County].
      • Jefferson County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Trenton [Jefferson County].
    • Ontario
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Trenton.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Schuylkill County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Trenton [Schuylkill County].
    • South Carolina
      • Edgefield County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Trenton [Edgefield County].
    • Tennessee
      • Gibson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Trenton [Gibson County].
    • Texas
      • Fannin County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Trenton [Fannin County].
    • Utah
      • Cache County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Trenton [Cache County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Pierce County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Trenton [Pierce County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Trenton ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Trenton:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Trenton - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

Rand McNally Map of Louisiana (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Ouachita Parish ...

Can you help?

As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Ouachita Parish.

AnabellHolland
  
BoeufKings
Brownsville - Bawcomville 
 Locharbor
CarlinLouisville
Chapman 
 Northeast
Dean Chapel 
 Olinkraft
Fouche 
FrizzellSplane Place
 Spring Hill
Gordon 
 Watizit
HeadWatts

Footnotes ...

<1>If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Trenton could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong parish. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.
<2>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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