Do you know of Carolina ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Carolina. 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 Carolina.<1>

Our sources for Carolina (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 Carolina other than they indicate that Carolina would be found somewhere in Marion County, South Carolina.

Communities Also Named Carolina ...

We found thirteen communities that share the name Carolina.

There is one other community in South Carolina which is also named Carolina.

Beyond South Carolina, we know of another twelve communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Located In South Carolina ...
- Dillon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Carolina [Dillon County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Covington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Carolina [Covington County].
- Florida
  - Osceola County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Carolina [Osceola County].
- Georgia
  - Gwinnett County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Carolina [Gwinnett County].
- Kansas
  - Doniphan County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Carolina [Doniphan County].
- Louisiana
  - Bienville Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Carolina [Bienville Parish].
- Mississippi
  - Issaquena County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Carolina [Issaquena County].
  - Itawamba County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Carolina [Itawamba County].
- North Carolina
  - Alamance County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Carolina [Alamance County].
  - Gaston County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Carolina [Gaston County].
- Rhode Island
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Rhode Island community of Carolina [Washington County].
- Texas
  - Walker County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Carolina [Walker County].
- West Virginia
  - Marion County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Carolina [Marion County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Carolina ...

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

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

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

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

More Orphans in Marion 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 Marion County.

Footnotes ...

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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.

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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 Carolina 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.