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Do you know of Due West ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Due West. 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 Due West.

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Due West, so we are uncertain whether Due West is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Due West would be found somewhere in Davidson County, Tennessee.

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 Due West ...

We found two communities that share the name Due West.

Within Tennessee, the name Due West is unique.

Beyond Tennessee, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Georgia
      • Cobb 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 Georgia community of Due West [Cobb County].
    • South Carolina
      • Abbeville County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Due West [Abbeville County].

More Orphans in  Davidson 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 Davidson County.

AcklenMelrose
 Mimms
Baker 
Bakers StationNew Due West
BaptistNewsom's Station
BaxtersNorth
BelleviewNortheast
Bluefields 
Bull RunOneyville
 Overtons
Danley 
DoziersPennington Bend
DrakePleasant Hill
  
East Due WestRiverside
EastRosedale
Easton 
EdgefieldShwab
 South Harpeth
Flat RockSouth Nashville
Fort NashboroughStahlman
 Stewart's Ferry
GlendaleStone River
Goodlett's 
 Uptown Nashville
Hardin's 
Harpeth Valley ParkVan Blarcom
Hickory BendVaughn
Highland Heights 
HillwoodWhite Bridge
 White Creek Springs
Jere BaxterWhite's Bend
 Woodard
Manskers IslandWoodland
MayviewWoodmont

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 Due West 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.









 

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