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Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Fond du Lac came from various goverment sources (GNIS, FIPS), we also found mention of Fond du Lac in various books and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Fond du Lac. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our Fond du Lac data came from. The following list of references and mentions is incomplete.

 

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Fond du Lac:
Services available in 1895: had a Post Office, a Railroad Station

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Great Lakes West
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2005
(Available from Amazon.com)

Fond du Lac is contained in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for Fond du Lac. See our Misc Page for Fond du Lac for more information.

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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