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Welcome to Cooleyville ...

Cooleyville is located in Franklin County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Cooleyville, you might consider that their post office opened in 1872.

Cooleyville is 680 feet [207 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Cooleyville lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Communities Also Named Cooleyville ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Cooleyville - it's located in Arkansas.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Cooleyville.

Communities near Cooleyville ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Cooleyville.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Cooleyville. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Cooleyville.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Cooleyville. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Cooleyville.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Cooleyville. See our Newspapers Page for Cooleyville.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Cooleyville ...

Looking for more information about Cooleyville? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Cooleyville, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Cooleyville.

Adding Cooleyville to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Cooleyville in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Cooleyville was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Cooleyville post office opened in 1872. The Cooleyville post office closed in 1931.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Cooleyville.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Massachusetts' counties, including Franklin, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Cooleyville - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

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