Do you know of Garrett ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Garrett. 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 Garrett.
Our sources for Garrett (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 Garrett other than they indicate that Garrett would be found somewhere in Buckingham County, Virginia.
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.
Communities Also Named Garrett ...
We found fourteen communities that share the name Garrett.
Within Virginia, the name Garrett is unique.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Johnson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Garrett [Johnson County].
- Illinois
- Douglas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Garrett [Douglas County].
- Indiana
- DeKalb County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Garrett [DeKalb County].
- Kentucky
- Floyd County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Garrett [Floyd County].
- Meade County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Garrett [Meade County].
- Woodford County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Garrett [Woodford County].
- Missouri
- Callaway County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Garrett [Callaway County].
- Oklahoma
- Pennsylvania
- Somerset County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Garrett [Somerset County].
- Tennessee
- Decatur County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Garrett [Decatur County].
- Texas
- Washington
- Walla Walla County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Garrett [Walla Walla County].
- Wyoming
- Albany County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Garrett [Albany County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Garrett ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Garrett:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Garrett - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of Virginia (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Buckingham 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 Buckingham County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Garrett could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |