Do you know of Vale Mills ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Vale Mills. 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 Vale Mills.<1>
Our sources for Vale Mills (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 Vale Mills other than they indicate that Vale Mills would be found somewhere in Giles County, Tennessee.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Vale Mills ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Vale Mills:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Vale Mills - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
More Orphans in Giles 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 Giles County.
| Allensville | Milky Way |
| Minnowford | |
| Barcheers | |
| Bass | Prospect Station |
| DeRay | Redell |
| Dodsons | Reynolds |
| Gas | Shore |
| Gibsonville | State Line |
| Heron | Vacco |
| Indian Creek | Wales Station |
| White Hill | |
| Lamartine | |
| Young | |
| Merritt |
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. |