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Do you know of Governors Island ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Governors Island. 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 Governors Island. Our sources for Governors Island (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 Governors Island other than they indicate that Governors Island would be found somewhere in Swain County, North Carolina. 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 Governors Island ...We found one communities that share the name Governors Island. Within North Carolina, the name Governors Island is unique. Beyond North Carolina, there is another community also named Governors Island in the United States.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Governors Island ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Governors Island: Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Governors Island - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned Rand McNally Map of North Carolina (1911)
SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Appalachia & Piedmont
The FIPS database contains an entry for Governors Island. Referenced FIPS Records ... FIPS Code: 37/27180 (Place Name: Governors Island) County: Swain (FIPS State/County: 37/173) Class: U8 Identifies a populated place (in this case, Governors Island) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). More Orphans in Swain 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 Swain County.
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