Do you know of Pennington ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Pennington. 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 Pennington.

Our sources for Pennington (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 Pennington other than they indicate that Pennington would be found somewhere in Stanly County, North Carolina.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1886 and closed in 1909.

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 Pennington ...

We found seventeen communities that share the name Pennington.

Within North Carolina, the name Pennington is unique.

Beyond North Carolina, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, sixteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Choctaw County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Pennington [Choctaw County].
- Arkansas
  - Jackson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Pennington [Jackson County].
- British Columbia
  - Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Pennington.
- California
  - Sutter County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Pennington [Sutter County].
- Delaware
  - New Castle County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Pennington [New Castle County].
- Georgia
  - Morgan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Pennington [Morgan County].
  - Sumter County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Pennington [Sumter County].
- Kansas
  - Pennington #
  - 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 Kansas community of Pennington.
- Minnesota
  - Beltrami County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Pennington [Beltrami County].
- New Jersey
  - Mercer 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 New Jersey community of Pennington [Mercer County].
- New Mexico
  - Union County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Pennington [Union County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Huntingdon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Pennington [Huntingdon County].
- South Dakota
  - Minnehaha 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 South Dakota community of Pennington [Minnehaha County].
- Texas
  - Trinity County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Pennington [Trinity County].
- Virginia
  - Lee 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 Virginia community of Pennington [Lee County].
- Wisconsin
  - Oneida 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 Wisconsin community of Pennington [Oneida County].
  - Price County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Pennington [Price County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Pennington ...

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

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 Pennington - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

Rand McNally Map of North Carolina (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in Stanly 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 Stanly County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Pennington 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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