Do you know of Sylvester ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Sylvester. 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 Sylvester.
Our sources for Sylvester (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 Sylvester other than they indicate that Sylvester would be found somewhere in Chatham 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 Sylvester ...
We found seven communities that share the name Sylvester.
Within North Carolina, the name Sylvester is unique.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of another seven communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seven communities, six are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Georgia
- Worth County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Sylvester [Worth County].
- Kentucky
- Knott County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Sylvester [Knott County].
- Michigan
- Mecosta County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Sylvester [Mecosta County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Sylvester.
- Pennsylvania
- Tioga County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Sylvester [Tioga County].
- Texas
- Fisher County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Sylvester [Fisher County].
- West Virginia
- Boone County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Sylvester [Boone County].
- Georgia
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Sylvester ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Sylvester:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Sylvester - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Chatham 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 Chatham County.