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Do you know of Akinsville ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Akinsville. 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 Akinsville. Our sources for Akinsville (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 Akinsville other than they indicate that Akinsville would be found somewhere in Morgan County, Missouri. From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1880 and closed in 1920. 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 Akinsville ...We found one communities that share the name Akinsville. Within Missouri, the name Akinsville is unique. Beyond Missouri, there is another community also named Akinsville in the United States.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Akinsville ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Akinsville: Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1> Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Akinsville - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station Map from 1904 (unknown title/publisher) SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Prairies East & Ozarks
More Orphans in Morgan 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 Morgan County.
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