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Do you know of South Whitehall ???

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

Our sources for South Whitehall (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of South Whitehall other than they indicate that South Whitehall would be found somewhere in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1830 and closed  in 1895.

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 South Whitehall ...

We found one communities that share the name South Whitehall.

Within Pennsylvania, the name South Whitehall is unique.

Beyond Pennsylvania, there is another community also named South Whitehall in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Michigan
      • Muskegon County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of South Whitehall [Muskegon County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for South Whitehall ...

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

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

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

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

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  Lehigh 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 Lehigh County.

AineyvilleLower Fullerton
Allen CrestLowhill
  
BestMetamora
Bethlehem JunctionMinnich
  
Centre ValleyNorth Whitehall
Centronia 
Cherry FordOswaldville
Crane 
 Parkview Gardens
DeibertsvillePlover
DresherPortland
  
East Penn JunctionRingers
East SlatedaleRolling Hills
Elliott Heights 
EmausSaucona
 Saucon's
FerndaleSchadts
FranklinShepherd Hills
 Sherersville
GardnerShoenersville
German CornersSiegersville
Germans CornerSpring Mill
Guth's StationStetler
  
HartsvilleTripoli
Heinly 
HoffmanUpper Saucon
  
JordanWalberts
 Waldenheim Park
Kline's CornersWalnut Gardens
KraussdaleWeishample
 West Coplay
Lehigh ValleyWhitehall
Lower Catasauqua 

Footnotes ...

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

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









 

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