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Do you know of Madenville ???

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

We found mention of Madenville as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Washington County, Tennessee.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1899 and closed  in 1900.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Madenville ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

More Orphans in  Washington 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 Washington County.

Alfred 
 Indian Ridge
Blizzard 
Blue PlumJames Cross Roads
Boon's CreekJohnson City Southeast
  
Carroll ReeceKing Springs
Carrville 
Chucky ValleyLongmire
Clara 
College HeightsMaupin Row
ConklingMiller's
Crookshanks 
 Nellie
Dove's MillNola Chucky
  
Embreeville JunctionPark
Estes KefauverPettibone
 Pilot Hill
Florence 
Free HillSouth Johnson City
FreedomSwingleville
  
Garber's MillsTrump
Green Meadow 
 Watauga Bend
Hill TopWest Johnson City
Hossville 

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>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.
<3>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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