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Do you know of Happy Home ???

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

We found mention of Happy Home as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Burke County, North Carolina.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1857 and closed  in 1886.

Communities Also Named Happy Home ...

We found one communities that share the name Happy Home.

There is one other community in North Carolina which is also named Happy Home.

Beyond North Carolina.

  • Communities Located In North Carolina ...
    • Rockingham County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Happy Home [Rockingham County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Happy Home ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

More Orphans in  Burke 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 Burke County.

Brinkley 
Burke ChapelJoy
  
CoraMackeyville
  
DogwoodPearson
 Piedmont Springs
EldridgePitts
  
Fonta FloraValda
  
GibbsWarlick
 Warlick's Mills
HenesseyWortman
Hoodsville 

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.
<2>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.
<3>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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