Do you know of Freeman ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Freeman. 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 Freeman.
Our sources for Freeman (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 Freeman other than they indicate that Freeman would be found somewhere in Greenville County, South Carolina.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1881 and closed in 1908.
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 Freeman ...
We found 31 communities that share the name Freeman.
Within South Carolina, the name Freeman is unique.
Beyond South Carolina, we know of another 31 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 31 communities, 30 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
- Maricopa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Freeman [Maricopa County].
- Arkansas
- Benton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Freeman [Benton County].
- Carroll County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Freeman [Carroll County].
- Pope 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 Arkansas community of Freeman [Pope County].
- California
- Kern County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Freeman [Kern County].
- Colorado
- Florida
- Freeman #
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Freeman.
- Georgia
- Early County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Freeman [Early County].
- Illinois
- Kane County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Freeman [Kane County].
- Indiana
- Owen County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Freeman [Owen County].
- Iowa
- Cerro Gordo County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Freeman [Cerro Gordo County].
- Kansas
- Pratt 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 Kansas community of Freeman [Pratt County].
- Stafford 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 Kansas community of Freeman [Stafford County].
- Maine
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Polk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Freeman [Polk County].
- Missouri
- Cass County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Freeman [Cass County].
- Nebraska
- Gage County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Freeman [Gage County].
- New Jersey
- New York
- Steuben County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Freeman [Steuben County].
- North Carolina
- Columbus County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Freeman [Columbus County].
- Ohio
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Freeman.
- Pennsylvania
- McKean County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Freeman [McKean County].
- South Dakota
- Hutchinson County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Freeman [Hutchinson County].
- Texas
- Virginia
- Brunswick County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Freeman [Brunswick County].
- Washington
- Spokane County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Freeman [Spokane County].
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Langlade County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Freeman [Langlade County].
- Arizona
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Freeman ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Freeman:
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 Freeman - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of South Carolina (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Greenville 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 Greenville County.
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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Freeman 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/ |