Do you know of Harper's Cross Roads ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Harper's Cross Roads. 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 Harper's Cross Roads.
Our sources for Harper's Cross Roads (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 Harper's Cross Roads other than they indicate that Harper's Cross Roads would be found somewhere in Sampson 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 Harper's Cross Roads ...
We found one communities that share the name Harper's Cross Roads.
There is one other community in North Carolina which is also named Harper's Cross Roads.
Beyond North Carolina.
- Communities Located In North Carolina ...
- Chatham County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Harper's Cross Roads [Chatham County].
- Chatham County
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Harper's Cross Roads ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Harper's Cross Roads:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Harper's Cross Roads - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Sampson County ...
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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 Sampson County.