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Do you know of Alecto ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Alecto. 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 Alecto.<1>

Our source wasn't clear whether Alecto was a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that Alecto would be found somewhere in Delta County, Michigan.

Communities Also Named Alecto ...

We found one communities that share the name Alecto.

There is one other community in Michigan which is also named Alecto.

Beyond Michigan.

  • Communities Located In Michigan ...
    • Menominee County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Alecto [Menominee County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Alecto ...

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

Along The Tracks, A Directory of Named Places on Michigan Railroads
Written by: Meints, Graydon M.
Published by Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University - 1987
(Available from Amazon.com)

More Orphans in  Delta 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 Delta County.

BarkvilleMaple Ridge
Bay SidingMarrengers
BichlerMason
Big RiverMatteson
BranchMcLaughlin
Burnis SpurMcQueens Spur
 Miners Spur
CentervilleMiners
Chandler Falls 
CliffsNew Minneapolis
 Newhall
Days River 
DefiancePetersons
Ducettes SpurPortage
  
Farrell SpurRapid Siding
Felch JunctionRoberts Siding
FerryRussell
Friday 
 Setif
GladstoneSturgeon River
Grant 
 Uno
Haggersons 
Hoops SPurVan Winkle
 Van's Harbor
Lamay 
Larsons SpurWest Point
LeBresh SpurWhite
LeeWhitefish River
  

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>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.
<3>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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek 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 Alecto 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.









 

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