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Do you know of Morrell ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Morrell. 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 Morrell.

Our sources for Morrell (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 Morrell other than they indicate that Morrell would be found somewhere in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania.

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 Morrell ...

We found five communities that share the name Morrell.

There are two communities within Pennsylvania that are also named Morrell.

Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another three communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these three communities, four are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
    • Blair 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 Pennsylvania community of Morrell [Blair County].
    • Fayette 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 Pennsylvania community of Morrell [Fayette County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Ashley 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 Arkansas community of Morrell [Ashley County].
    • New Brunswick
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Morrell.
    • South Carolina
      • Florence 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 South Carolina community of Morrell [Florence County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Morrell ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Huntingdon 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 Huntingdon County.

AllentonJames
Aughwick Mills 
 Krider
Barnett 
Barre ForgeLocke Valley
BeaverLodema
BeersvilleLotta Brove
Broad TopLoveville Station
Brownsville 
 Mapleton Depot
Cedar RockMcNeal
Clair 
Coffee RunNorrace
Colerain ForgeNorth Baree
Coles Summit 
CoraOakland
CornpropstOtelia
Cornpropst's Mills 
CoveReeds
Crawford 
Crooked CreekSarah
Crystal SpringsShade Valley
 Shirley
Eagle FoundryShoeberger
East Broad TopShy Beaver
 Smithfield
Globe RunSouth Huntingdon
GorsuchSpruce
GoshornStarr
Grafton 
Greenwood FurnaceThisbe
  
Hare's ValleyUnion Church
Hill Valley 
HostlerValley Point
Hubelsville 
Hundred SpringWest Barre
 West Mooresville
JacobWildwood
James CreekWoodbine

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 Morrell 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.









 

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