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Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Herculaneum came from various goverment sources (GNIS, US Census, FIPS), we also found mention of Herculaneum in various books, maps and other sources.

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

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our Herculaneum 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 Herculaneum:
Services available in 1895: had a Post Office, a Railroad Station

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)

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Prairies East & Ozarks
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2004
(Available from Amazon.com)

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

Herculaneum was listed as Herculaneum Courthouse.

Map from 1904 (unknown title/publisher)

Shell Oil Road Map for Missouri (1956)
Published by Shell Oil Company

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

We found Herculaneum in these Censuses: 2010-1990. See our Census Page for Herculaneum for more information.

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for Herculaneum. See our Misc Page for Herculaneum 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/