Welcome to William Penn ...So far, we found very little information about William Penn. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added William Penn to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with William Penn, please Contact Us. William Penn was located William Penn would have been located within present day Washington County<2>. While we don't have a date for the founding of William Penn, you might consider that their post office opened in 1873. While the community is gone, the present day location for William Penn is 300 feet [91 m] above sea level.<3>. Time Zone: The area where William Penn was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for William Penn. We have created a list of 10 communities that are near William Penn. We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around William Penn. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for William Penn. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of William Penn. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around William Penn. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around William Penn. See our Newspapers Page for William Penn. We originally found mention of William Penn in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for William Penn was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5> For more details, see References and Mentions for William Penn.
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