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Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Calhoun Falls (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Calhoun Falls. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Neighboring Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the west contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Calhoun Falls is located in Abbeville County.

To see how the shape of South Carolina's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Abbeville County: Elbert (GA), Anderson, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens & McCormick.

Below are the counties that are near Calhoun Falls. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Calhoun Falls:

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Calhoun Falls, see our County-by-County Page for Calhoun Falls.

Cemeteries Near Calhoun Falls ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Calhoun Falls.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Calhoun Falls - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Calhoun Falls covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Calhoun Falls, with the one closest to Calhoun Falls listed first.

  • Hester Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Salem Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Hunters Chapel Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Tates Grove Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Old Rocky River Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Tucker Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Bethlehem Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Brough Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Boyd Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Rocky River Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Woodlawn Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Old McCalla Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (295 more) ...
    • Gods Acre Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Bethel Grove Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • St. Johns Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<2>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Calhoun Falls had railroad service and no post office. In 2020, Calhoun Falls had a population of 1,883 people.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Calhoun Falls, with the one closest to Calhoun Falls listed first.

  • Hester
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Hester is located in Abbeville County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hester
  • Latimer
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Monterey ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Monterey is located in Abbeville County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monterey
  • Watts
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Watts is located in Abbeville County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Watts
  • Heardmont
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Heardmont is located in Elbert County (GA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heardmont
  • Mount Carmel
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Lowndesville
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Calhoun Mill
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Calhoun Mill is located in Abbeville County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calhoun Mill
  • Stansell ‑ Historic
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Stansell is located in Elbert County (GA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stansell
  • Dyson ‑ Historic
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Dyson is located in Wilkes County (GA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dyson
  • Middleton
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Middleton is located in Elbert County (GA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middleton
  • Dover ‑ Historic
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Dover is located in Abbeville County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dover
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Broad
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Broad is located in Wilkes County (GA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Broad
    • Ruckersville
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Ruckersville is located in Elbert County (GA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruckersville
    • Concordia ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Concordia is located in Elbert County (GA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Concordia

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Calhoun Falls. See our List of 1890's Communities around Calhoun Falls.

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Calhoun Falls ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 50 newspapers that have been published in the area around Calhoun Falls.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Calhoun Falls. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Calhoun Falls and those printed in the larger area surrounding Calhoun Falls.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 21 miles [33.8 km]<3> of Calhoun Falls.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Calhoun Falls:

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Calhoun Falls, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Calhoun Falls) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.