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Do you know of Fort Hill ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Fort Hill. 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 Fort Hill.

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1890 and closed  in 1902.

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 Fort Hill ...

We found sixteen communities that share the name Fort Hill.

Within South Carolina, the name Fort Hill is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Connecticut
      • Litchfield 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 Connecticut community of Fort Hill [Litchfield County].
    • Illinois
      • Lake County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Fort Hill [Lake County].
    • Maine
      • York 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 Maine community of Fort Hill [York County].
    • Massachusetts
      • Plymouth County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Fort Hill [Plymouth County].
    • New York
      • Genesee County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Fort Hill [Genesee County].
      • Ontario County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Fort Hill [Ontario County].
      • Suffolk County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Fort Hill [Suffolk County].
      • Wayne County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Fort Hill [Wayne County].
    • Oregon
      • Polk County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Fort Hill [Polk County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Montgomery 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 Fort Hill [Montgomery County].
      • Somerset County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Fort Hill [Somerset County].
    • Rhode Island
      • Providence County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Rhode Island community of Fort Hill [Providence County].
    • Virginia
      • Caroline 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 Virginia community of Fort Hill [Caroline County].
      • Henrico 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 Virginia community of Fort Hill [Henrico County].
      • Lynchburg City
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Fort Hill [Lynchburg City].
    • West Virginia
      • Kanawha County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Fort Hill [Kanawha County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Fort Hill ...

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

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 Fort Hill - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Pickens 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 Pickens County.

Alco 
AlexanderMala
Alice MillMaynard
AmblerMeet
Anderson's MillsMica
AriailMile Creek
Arnold's MillsMurphy
  
BriggsPearl
 Pickens Mill
ChastainPindor
ClaremontPorter
ClementPraters
  
DaltonRedmond
 Rice's
Farr'sRoanoke
FieldRock
Five Mile 
FortnerSheriff
 Spencer
GatesStewart
 Sunny Dale
Hazel 
 Table Mountain
Kings 
 Wesleyan
Loopers'Wolf Creek

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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Fort Hill 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/









 

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