Do you know of Ebenezer ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Ebenezer. 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 Ebenezer.
Our sources for Ebenezer (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 Ebenezer other than they indicate that Ebenezer would be found somewhere in Chatham County, North Carolina.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1890 and closed in 1907.
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 Ebenezer ...
We found 43 communities that share the name Ebenezer.
There is one other community in North Carolina which is also named Ebenezer.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of another 42 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 42 communities, 40 are located in the United States and nine are in Canada.
- Communities Located In North Carolina ...
- Cherokee County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Ebenezer [Cherokee County].
- Cherokee County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Calhoun County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Ebenezer [Calhoun County].
- Columbia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Ebenezer [Columbia County].
- Greene County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Ebenezer [Greene County].
- Florida
- Georgia
- Chattooga County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Ebenezer [Chattooga County].
- Effingham County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Ebenezer [Effingham County].
- Union County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Ebenezer [Union County].
- Walton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Ebenezer [Walton County].
- Kentucky
- Mercer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Ebenezer [Mercer County].
- Monroe County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Ebenezer [Monroe County].
- Muhlenberg County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Ebenezer [Muhlenberg County].
- Louisiana
- Mississippi
- Holmes County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Ebenezer [Holmes County].
- Leake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Ebenezer [Leake County].
- Marion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Ebenezer [Marion County].
- Newton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Ebenezer [Newton County].
- Missouri
- Greene County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Ebenezer [Greene County].
- New Jersey
- Warren County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Ebenezer [Warren County].
- New York
- Erie County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Ebenezer [Erie County].
- Ohio
- Preble County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Ebenezer [Preble County].
- Ontario
- Pennsylvania
- Dauphin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Ebenezer [Dauphin County].
- Indiana County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Ebenezer [Indiana County].
- Lebanon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Ebenezer [Lebanon County].
- Prince Edward Island
- Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Ebenezer.
- Saskatchewan
- Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Ebenezer.
- South Carolina
- Berkeley County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Ebenezer [Berkeley County].
- Florence County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Ebenezer [Florence County].
- Oconee County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Ebenezer [Oconee County].
- York County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Ebenezer [York County].
- Tennessee
- Knox County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Ebenezer [Knox County].
- Marion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Ebenezer [Marion County].
- Marshall County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Ebenezer [Marshall County].
- Monroe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Ebenezer [Monroe County].
- Tipton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Ebenezer [Tipton County].
- Texas
- Virginia
- Pittsylvania County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Ebenezer [Pittsylvania County].
- Wisconsin
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Ebenezer [Jefferson County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ebenezer ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Ebenezer:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Ebenezer - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of North Carolina (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Chatham 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 Chatham County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Ebenezer could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |