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Miscellaneous References and Mentions

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

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

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

 

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

Charles City was listed as Charles City Courthouse.

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

Charles City was listed as Charles City Courthouse.

U.S. Post Offices (1803)
Printed by order of the Post Master General

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

Charles City was listed as Charles City Courthouse.

Rand McNally Map (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

Shell Oil Road Map for Virginia (1956)
Published by Shell Oil Company

Charles City 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 Charles City. See our Misc Page for Charles City 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/