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Do you know of Shelton's Ford ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Shelton's Ford. 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 Shelton's Ford.

Our sources for Shelton's Ford (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Shelton's Ford other than they indicate that Shelton's Ford would be found somewhere in Grainger 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.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Shelton's Ford ...

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Shelton's Ford - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Grainger 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 Grainger County.

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Black FoxJarmine
Blackwell 
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Central Point 
CorrytownOlcott
  
DoyalPowder Spring Gap
Dutch 
 Red Hill
Fennel StoreRed House
  
HargusSpring House
HeltonvilleStatia
 Sunrise
Indian Cave 
Indian RidgeWesterville









 

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This page was last modified/updated: 10 Mar 2024