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Do you know of Goosetown ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Goosetown. 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 Goosetown.<1>

Our sources for Goosetown (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 Goosetown other than they indicate that Goosetown would be found somewhere in Hocking County, Ohio.

Communities Also Named Goosetown ...

We found four communities that share the name Goosetown.

There are two communities within Ohio that are also named Goosetown.

Beyond Ohio, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Located In Ohio ...
    • Henry County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Goosetown [Henry County].
    • Vinton County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Goosetown [Vinton County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Pennsylvania
      • Chester County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Goosetown [Chester County].
    • Tennessee
      • McMinn County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Goosetown [McMinn County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Goosetown ...

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Goosetown - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Hocking 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 Hocking County.

Bairds Furnace JunctionMurray
  
GibesonvilleNorth Hills
Gibsonville 
 Outhwaite
Islesborough 
 Pineville
Keystone 
KittanningSwan
 Swartz
Lock's 
 Winona Furnace

Footnotes ...

<1>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.









 

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