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Do you know of Alvah ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Alvah. 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 Alvah.

Our sources for Alvah (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 Alvah other than they indicate that Alvah would be found somewhere in Henry County, Virginia.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1891 and closed  in 1905.

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 Alvah ...

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

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Henry County ...

Can you help?

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 Henry County.

AlumineLeatherwood Station
 Loneoak
Barrow's MillLucia
Burnt Chimneys 
 Marrowbone
Chatmoss - Laurel ParkMartin
CherokeeMartinsville
ComoMayo
 Modoc
Dyers StoreMoore's Mill
 Mountain Valley
Esto 
 Pruntys
Fry 
 Regulus
Gaynor HeightsRough And Ready Mills
Greystone 
 Self
HardieStanly
Hopper 
 Taylorsburg
IronsideTraylorsville
  
LackeyWallers

Footnotes ...

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

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









 

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