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Do you know of Dry Grove ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1872 and closed  in 1892.

Communities Also Named Dry Grove ...

We found one communities that share the name Dry Grove.

Within South Carolina, the name Dry Grove is unique.

Beyond South Carolina, there is another community also named Dry Grove in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Mississippi
      • Hinds County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Dry Grove [Hinds County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Dry Grove ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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

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

More Orphans in  Abbeville 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 Abbeville County.

BarnesMapleton
BordeauxMattison
BrownleeMillway
 Mount Hill
CalvertMountain View
Cambridge 
CaveNew Market
Cherokee Heights 
Church HillOtto
Cochransville 
CokesburyPetigru
CoronacaPhoenix
  
DonnaldsvilleRay
 Riley's
GentsvilleRiverside
Globe 
 Sandover
HuntersStony Point
  
Indian HillTerrysville
 Trask
JonesTrickumville
  
KeatonVerdrey
  
LebanonWalden
LinkWideman's
LotaWillington
Lulah 
 Zarline
Maddox 

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>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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