Do you know of Forty Eight ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Forty Eight. 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 Forty Eight.<1> Our sources for Forty Eight (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 Forty Eight other than they indicate that Forty Eight would be found somewhere in Wayne County, Tennessee. From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1874 and closed in 1913. Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Forty Eight ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Forty Eight: Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2> Rand McNally Map of Tennessee (1888)
More Orphans in Wayne 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 Wayne County.
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