That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.
By learning about College Hill (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.
As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for College Hill. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.
Neighboring Counties ...
When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.
For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.
So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the west contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.
Hollisters ‑ Historic (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Hollisters. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
New Guilford (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for New Guilford. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
The following are listed by their distance from College Hill, with the one closest to College Hill listed first.
Peerless ‑ Historic (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Peerless. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Culver Creek ‑ Historic (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Culver Creek. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Stillwell. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Frampton ‑ Historic (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Frampton. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Long Run ‑ Historic (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Long Run. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Rain Rock ‑ Historic (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Rain Rock. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Newton Mills ‑ Historic (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Newton Mills. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Tilton Crossroads ‑ Historic (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Tilton Crossroads. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Cokesbury Corners ‑ Historic (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Cokesbury Corners. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Cokesbury ‑ Historic (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Cokesbury. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Bloomfield. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Olivesburg. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Shenandoah. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of College Hill.
This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.
If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).
If not found below, our Cemetery List for College Hill covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from College Hill, with the one closest to College Hill listed first.
Zion Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
Jelloway Methodist Episcopal Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the east)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Jelloway Methodist Episcopal Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
Bigelow Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Shadley Valley Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
Pine Run Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Four Corners Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
North Bend Church of the Brethren Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the North Bend Church of the Brethren Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
Union Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the North Liberty Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
Wesley Chapel Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Wesley Chapel Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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Bunker Hill Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<5>
While we didn't find College Hill in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of College Hill.
These communities are listed based on their distance from College Hill, with the one closest to College Hill listed first.
To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.
Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 70 newspapers that have been published in the area around College Hill.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of College Hill, there are papers which were published within 21 miles [33.8 km]<6>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for College Hill.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to College Hill:
The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
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An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
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The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.
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We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about College Hill, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
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Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- College Hill) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in College Hill. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.5434, Longitude: -82.3349 In this case, the coordinates for College Hill have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).