Do you know of Bryan ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Bryan. 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 Bryan.
Our sources for Bryan (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 Bryan other than they indicate that Bryan would be found somewhere in Williamsburg County, South Carolina.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1914 and closed in 1919.
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 Bryan ...
We found eighteen communities that share the name Bryan.
Within South Carolina, the name Bryan is unique.
Beyond South Carolina, we know of another eighteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Walker County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Bryan [Walker County].
- Arkansas
- Scott County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Bryan [Scott County].
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Russell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Bryan [Russell County].
- Louisiana
- Bienville Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Bryan [Bienville Parish].
- Michigan
- Mackinac County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Bryan [Mackinac County].
- New Mexico
- Grant County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Bryan [Grant County].
- North Carolina
- Wilkes County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Bryan [Wilkes County].
- Ohio
- Williams County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Bryan [Williams County].
- Oklahoma
- Pennsylvania
- Armstrong County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Bryan [Armstrong 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 Bryan [Fayette County].
- Greene County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Bryan [Greene County].
- Texas
- West Virginia
- Marion 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 West Virginia community of Bryan [Marion County].
- Mason County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Bryan [Mason County].
- Wyoming
- Sweetwater County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Bryan [Sweetwater County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Bryan ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Bryan:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Rand McNally Map of South Carolina (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Williamsburg 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 Williamsburg County.
| Bee | Jay |
| Benson | |
| Black Mingo | Lambert |
| Brown | |
| Bynum | Mouzons |
| Camp Ridge | Parsonage |
| Chapman | |
| China Grove | Rollins |
| Cox | |
| Santee River | |
| Gourdin's Station | Single |
| Green Hill | Smith's Mills |
| Greens | |
| Vox | |
| Hebron | |
| Zeb |
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 Bryan 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/ |