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This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Gait's Mills. 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 Gait's Mills.<1>

Our sources for Gait's Mills (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Gait's Mills other than they indicate that Gait's Mills would be found somewhere in Amherst County, Virginia.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Gait's Mills ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Amherst County ...

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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 Amherst County.

Allen's CreekKnightsville
Amherst Springs 
AmyLeeds
 Leftwich
Buffalo SpringsLong Mountain
  
ChestnutMayflower
ClaiborneMcIvors
 Mount Pleasant
DillardMundy's Mill
Dodds Store 
 New Glasgow Depot
Experiment 
 Pryor
Falconerville 
FriarRiversville
  
GaitvilleStapleton Mills
 Stony Fork
Harris CreekSwans
Henleys Store 
HitchensvilleTemperance
 Tobacco Row
Idem 
 Walkerford
James RiverWay
  

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.