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Do you know of Front Royal ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Front Royal. 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 Front Royal.<1>

We found mention of Front Royal as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Frederick County, Virginia.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1802.

Communities Also Named Front Royal ...

We found two communities that share the name Front Royal.

There is one other community in Virginia which is also named Front Royal.

Beyond Virginia, there is another community also named Front Royal in the United States.

  • Communities Located In Virginia ...
    • Warren County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Front Royal [Warren County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Ohio
      • Knox County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Front Royal [Knox County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Front Royal ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

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

More Orphans in  Frederick 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 Frederick County.

Back Creek Valley 
BartonvilleParishville
Battletown 
 Rain
Cedar CreekRefuge
 Relief
DehavenReynolds Store
  
Gravel SpringStar Fort
 Star Tannery
High View 
 Trone
Kernstown 
 Vaucluse Station
Millbrook 
MinebankWhite House
Mount Vernon TanneryWinchester

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.
<2>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.
<3>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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