Do you know of Canaan ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Canaan. 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 Canaan.
We found mention of Canaan as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Wayne County, Pennsylvania.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1819 and closed in 1879.
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 Canaan ...
We found 30 communities that share the name Canaan.
Within Pennsylvania, the name Canaan is unique.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another 30 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 30 communities, 27 are located in the United States and five are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Lamar 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 Alabama community of Canaan [Lamar County].
- Lauderdale County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Canaan [Lauderdale County].
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Canaan [Montgomery County].
- Arkansas
- Connecticut
- Litchfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Canaan [Litchfield County].
- Florida
- Seminole County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Canaan [Seminole County].
- Georgia
- Morgan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Canaan [Morgan County].
- Indiana
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Canaan [Jefferson County].
- Kansas
- Maine
- Somerset County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Canaan [Somerset County].
- Mississippi
- Benton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Canaan [Benton County].
- Missouri
- Gasconade County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Canaan [Gasconade County].
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Canaan.
- New Hampshire
- Grafton County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Canaan [Grafton County].
- New York
- Columbia County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Canaan [Columbia County].
- North Carolina
- Transylvania County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Canaan [Transylvania County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Canaan.
- Ohio
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Canaan [Wayne County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Canaan.
- Oregon
- Columbia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Canaan [Columbia County].
- South Carolina
- Dorchester County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Canaan [Dorchester County].
- Orangeburg County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Canaan [Orangeburg County].
- Spartanburg County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Canaan [Spartanburg County].
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Grayson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Canaan [Grayson County].
- Limestone 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 Texas community of Canaan [Limestone County].
- Vermont
- Essex County
- Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Canaan [Essex County].
- West Virginia
- Upshur County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Canaan [Upshur County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Canaan ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Canaan:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
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
More Orphans in Wayne 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 Wayne County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Canaan 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |