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Introduction ...
So far, we found very little information about Le Count Hollow. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Le Count Hollow to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Le Count Hollow, please Contact Us.
We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:
- That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
- We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
- On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.
By learning about Le Count Hollow (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.
As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Le Count Hollow. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.
Name Variations for Le Count Hollow ...
When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.
For example, a typical abbreviation for Le Count Hollow: Le Count Holw. (or less commonly used: Le Count Hlw. or Le Count Hllw.)
If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.
Neighboring Counties ...
When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.
For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.
So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Le Count Hollow is historic, it would have been located within present day Barnstable County.
To see how the shape of Massachusetts' counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
Below are the counties that are near Le Count Hollow. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Le Count Hollow:
- Barnstable County (The home county of Le Count Hollow)
- The following are listed by their distance from Le Count Hollow, with the one closest to Le Count Hollow listed first.
- South Wellfleet
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- South Wellfleet is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Wellfleet
- Wellfleet
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Wellfleet is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wellfleet
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,728 people
- Eastham
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Eastham is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastham
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,902 people
- North Eastham
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- North Eastham is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Eastham
- South Truro
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- South Truro is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Truro
- Thumpertown Beach
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Thumpertown Beach is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thumpertown Beach
- Truro
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Truro is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Truro
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,007 people
- North Truro
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- North Truro is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Truro
- Pond Village
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Pond Village is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pond Village
- East Orleans
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- East Orleans is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Orleans
- Orleans
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Orleans is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orleans
- Population from the 2020 Census: 5,802 people
- South Orleans
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- South Orleans is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Orleans
- Plymouth County
- The following are listed by their distance from Le Count Hollow, with the one closest to Le Count Hollow listed first.
- White Horse Beach
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- White Horse Beach is located in Plymouth County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Horse Beach
- Manomet
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Manomet is located in Plymouth County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manomet
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Le Count Hollow, see our County-by-County Page for Le Count Hollow.
Cemeteries Near Le Count Hollow ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Le Count Hollow.
This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.
Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Le Count Hollow - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Le Count Hollow covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Le Count Hollow, with the one closest to Le Count Hollow listed first.
- South Wellfleet Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Oakdale Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Pleasant Hill / Oakdale Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Duck Creek Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Chequessett Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chequessett Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Chequessett Cemetery is located in Wellfleet.
- The Chequessett Cemetery has also been known as:
- Chequessett Neck Cemetery
- Early Meeting House Cemetery
- First Meeting House Cemetery
- Taylor Hill Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2230356 <3>
- Evergreen Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Congregational and Soldiers Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Soldiers Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Pine Grove Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Bridge Road Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Hill of Churches Hills of Storms Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Sacred Heart Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Continue List (91 more) ...
- Snow Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Cove Burying Ground
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Old North Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Nearby Communities in 1895 ...
We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.
While we didn't find Le Count Hollow in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Le Count Hollow.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Le Count Hollow, with the one closest to Le Count Hollow listed first.
- South Wellfleet
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- South Wellfleet is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Wellfleet
- Wellfleet
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Wellfleet is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wellfleet
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,728 people
- North Eastham
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- North Eastham is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Eastham
- Eastham
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Eastham is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastham
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,902 people
- South Truro
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- South Truro is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Truro
- Truro
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Truro is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Truro
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,007 people
- Truro Station ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Truro Station is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Truro Station
- Orleans
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Orleans is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orleans
- Population from the 2020 Census: 5,802 people
- East Orleans
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- East Orleans is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Orleans
- North Truro
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- North Truro is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Truro
- East Brewster
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- East Brewster is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Brewster
- South Orleans
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- South Orleans is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Orleans
- Continue List (16 more) ...
- Brewster
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Brewster is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brewster
- Population from the 2020 Census: 9,772 people
- South Brewster
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- South Brewster is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Brewster
- Provincetown
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Provincetown is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Provincetown
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,957 people
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Le Count Hollow. See our List of 1890's Communities around Le Count Hollow.
Newspapers Published in Le Count Hollow ...
An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.
Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 29 newspapers that have been published in the area around Le Count Hollow.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Le Count Hollow, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Le Count Hollow.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Le Count Hollow:
- Websites specific to Massachusetts
- Pages specific to Barnstable County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Massachusetts
Footnotes ...
| <1> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Le Count Hollow, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <2> | The Massachusetts Historical Commission (MHC) has created and maintains a database of historic properties that is called MACRIS (for the Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System). More information about the MHC and MACRIS can be found on their website: mhc-macris.net.
When visiting the MACRIS website, you might encounter their page requiring the 'Acceptance of Terms'. With your acceptance, you'll be transfered to the desired page.
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| <3> | The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com. |
| <4> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Le Count Hollow) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |