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Do you know of Highland Home ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1856 and closed  in 1892.

Communities Also Named Highland Home ...

We found one communities that share the name Highland Home.

Within South Carolina, the name Highland Home is unique.

Beyond South Carolina, there is another community also named Highland Home in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Crenshaw County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Highland Home [Crenshaw County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Highland Home ...

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

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 Highland Home - 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  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.

AlmaManila
 Marengo
BelfastMcPherson's
BrandMerna
 Milam's
CarrollMount Pleasant
Cedar Grove 
CentrevilleNashville
  
DorrohOwingsville
Dunlapville 
 Palmetto
EdenPaul
EriPhilson
 Power
GoldvillePuckett's Ferry
  
HairstonRulane
High Point 
HuntsvilleSaint Joe
 Sarah
JachinScuffletown
JacksSimpson's Mills
 Simpsonville
KearneySouth Clinton
 Sullivan
Lanford Station 
LeakesvilleTip Top
Line Creek 
 Watts Mills
MaddenWest Clinton

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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