Do you know of Goldville ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Goldville. 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 Goldville.
Our sources for Goldville (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 Goldville other than they indicate that Goldville would be found somewhere in Laurens County, South Carolina.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1883 and closed in 1948.
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 Goldville ...
We found two communities that share the name Goldville.
Within South Carolina, the name Goldville is unique.
Beyond South Carolina, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Goldville ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Goldville:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Goldville - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office
Rand McNally Map of South Carolina (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Southeast
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 1999
(Available from Amazon.com)
More Orphans in Laurens 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 Laurens County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |