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Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about New Fountain came from various goverment sources (GNIS, FIPS), we also found mention of New Fountain in various books and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about New Fountain. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our New Fountain data came from. The following list of references and mentions is incomplete.

 

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for New Fountain:
Services available in 1895: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

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

New Fountain is contained in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for New Fountain. See our Misc Page for New Fountain for more information.

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/