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Do you know of Blue Wing ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Blue Wing. 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 Blue Wing.<1>

Our sources for Blue Wing (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 Blue Wing other than they indicate that Blue Wing would be found somewhere in Granville County, North Carolina.

Communities Also Named Blue Wing ...

We found one communities that share the name Blue Wing.

Within North Carolina, the name Blue Wing is unique.

Beyond North Carolina, there is another community also named Blue Wing in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Manitoba
      • Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Blue Wing.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Blue Wing ...

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

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

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

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Appalachia & Piedmont
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

More Orphans in  Granville 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 Granville County.

AdoniramLyonsville
  
Big RockMerrittsville
Brookville 
BrownsvilleNew Hope Mills
BuchananNoblin
 Northside
Ceres 
 Pattonsville
DacePleasants
Dean 
DementSassafras Fork
DutchvilleSunset
  
EnergyTally Ho
 Thorp
Green'sTranquility
  
HamptonVirgilina
Hargrove 
 Waterloo
JeffreysWhetstone
 Wilkins
Kintons Cross Road 
 Zacho

Footnotes ...

<1>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.









 

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