Do you know of Good Hope ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Good Hope. 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 Good Hope.
Our sources for Good Hope (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Good Hope other than they indicate that Good Hope would be found somewhere in Frederick County, Maryland.
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 Good Hope ...
We found 32 communities that share the name Good Hope.
There is one other community in Maryland which is also named Good Hope.
Beyond Maryland, we know of another 31 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 31 communities, 31 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Maryland ...
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Good Hope [Montgomery County].
- Montgomery County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Ouachita County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Good Hope [Ouachita County].
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Good Hope.
- California
- Florida
- Okaloosa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Good Hope [Okaloosa County].
- Georgia
- Illinois
- McDonough County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Good Hope [McDonough County].
- Louisiana
- Saint Charles Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Good Hope [Saint Charles Parish].
- Mississippi
- Holmes County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Good Hope [Holmes County].
- Leake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Good Hope [Leake County].
- Marion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Good Hope [Marion County].
- Neshoba County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Good Hope [Neshoba County].
- Perry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Good Hope [Perry County].
- Nevada
- Elko County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Good Hope [Elko County].
- New Mexico
- Rio Arriba County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Good Hope [Rio Arriba County].
- Ohio
- Pennsylvania
- Cumberland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Good Hope [Cumberland County].
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Campbell 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 Tennessee community of Good Hope [Campbell County].
- Dyer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Good Hope [Dyer County].
- McNairy County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Good Hope [McNairy County].
- Texas
- Lavaca County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Good Hope [Lavaca County].
- Shelby 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 Texas community of Good Hope [Shelby County].
- Washington
- Clark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Good Hope [Clark County].
- Wisconsin
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Good Hope ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Good Hope:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Good Hope - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Frederick County ...
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 Frederick County.
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 Good Hope 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 county. 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. |