Do you know of Shortburgh ???

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

Our sources for Shortburgh (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 Shortburgh other than they indicate that Shortburgh would be found somewhere in Hancock County, Tennessee.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Shortburgh ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in Hancock 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 Hancock County.

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.