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Do you know of Red Land ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Red Land. 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 Red Land. Our sources for Red Land (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 Red Land other than they indicate that Red Land would be found somewhere in Pontotoc County, Mississippi. 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 Red Land ...We found one communities that share the name Red Land. Within Mississippi, the name Red Land is unique. Beyond Mississippi, there is another community also named Red Land in the United States.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Red Land ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Red Land: Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Red Land - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Rand McNally Map of Mississippi (1911)
More Orphans in Pontotoc 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 Pontotoc County.
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