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Do you know of Pentacost ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Pentacost. 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 Pentacost.

Our sources for Pentacost (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 Pentacost other than they indicate that Pentacost would be found somewhere in Lenawee County, Michigan.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1887 and closed  in 1929.

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.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Pentacost ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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)

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Lenawee County ...

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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 Lenawee County.

Balch 
Baldwins CrossingNorth Fayette
Bateman 
BimoOak Beach
Blissfield JunctionOntario
BonneyOsborn
  
CambridgePackard
Chase'sPage
ClayPalmyra Junction
CorbusPrairie Siding
Cowham 
 Quaker
Dominican 
DoverRaisin Centre Station
 Raisin
East OgdenRome
EnnisRound Lake
Evans LakeRussell Siding
  
FairfieldsSaint Josephs
FairportSand Lake Corners
Fruit RidgeSand Lake
 Sisson
GormanSouth Adrian
GrosvenorStan
 Stevens
HarrisonSutton
  
Kelleys PitTecumseh Junction
Knights 
 Victorsville
Lake Rest 
Lake RidgeWalworth
LeafWapano
LenaweeWest Ogden
Lima JunctionWindom
 Wood
MadisonWoodstock
MarvinWoodward
Muson 

Footnotes ...

<1>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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