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Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about West Gaines came from various goverment sources (GNIS, FIPS), we also found mention of West Gaines in various books and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about West Gaines. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our West Gaines data came from. The following list of references and mentions is incomplete.

 

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

West Gaines is contained in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for West Gaines. See our Misc Page for West Gaines for more information.

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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