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Do you know of Powder Spring Gap ???

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

Our sources for Powder Spring Gap (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 Powder Spring Gap other than they indicate that Powder Spring Gap would be found somewhere in Grainger County, Tennessee.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1849 and closed  in 1895.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Powder Spring Gap ...

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

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 Powder Spring Gap - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

More Orphans in  Grainger 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 Grainger County.

Ball PointJarmine
Black Fox 
BlackwellNarrow Valley
Bull Run 
 Olcott
Central PointOrrsville
Corrytown 
 Red Hill
DoyalRed House
DutchRedwood
 Richlandville
Fennel StoreRocky Spring
  
HargusShelton's Ford
HeltonvilleSpring House
 Statia
Indian CaveSunrise
Indian Ridge 
 Westerville

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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