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Do you know of Dark Ridge ???

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

Our sources for Dark Ridge (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Dark Ridge other than they indicate that Dark Ridge would be found somewhere in Watauga County, North Carolina.

Communities Also Named Dark Ridge ...

We found one communities that share the name Dark Ridge.

There is one other community in North Carolina which is also named Dark Ridge.

Beyond North Carolina.

  • Communities Located In North Carolina ...
    • Avery County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Dark Ridge [Avery County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Dark Ridge ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Watauga 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 Watauga County.

AdamsHorton
Amber 
 Mast
Banner's ElkMeadow Creek
Beech CreekMiddle Cane
BenfieldMoody
Brushy FlatMoretz Mills
Buckvale 
 Pluto
Deerfield 
 Saint Jude
Elkdale 
 Tamarack
ForestTracy
 Trivett
Galax 
GoogooValle Montis
GordonVirgil
Grandfather 
 White Rock
Hackett 
HagamanYerger
HarmanYuma
Hattie 

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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