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Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Kenwood (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Kenwood. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Cemeteries Near Kenwood ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Kenwood.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Kenwood - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Kenwood covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Kenwood, with the one closest to Kenwood listed first.

  • Beth Israel Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Emanuel Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • City Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Mt. View Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Ruddell Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Old Lick Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Blue Ridge Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Springwood Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Memorial Bridge Park
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Gearhart Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Hogan Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
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    • Bandy Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Waldron Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Richard Carver Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<1>

While we didn't find Kenwood in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Kenwood.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Kenwood, with the one closest to Kenwood listed first.

  • Vinton
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Roanoke
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Bonsack
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Bonsack is located in Roanoke County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonsack
  • Leslie
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Leslie is located in Roanoke County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leslie
  • Hollins
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Coyner Springs
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Coyner Springs is located in Botetourt County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coyner Springs
  • Cloverdale
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Stewartsville
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Stewartsville is located in Bedford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stewartsville
  • Cave Spring
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Cave Spring is located in Roanoke County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cave Spring
  • Hardy Ford
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Hardy Ford is located in Franklin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hardy Ford
  • Blue Ridge
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Daleville
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
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    • Amsterdam
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
      • Amsterdam is located in Botetourt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amsterdam
    • Troutville
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Poages Mill
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Poages Mill is located in Roanoke County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poages Mill

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Kenwood. See our List of 1890's Communities around Kenwood.

Newspapers Published in Kenwood ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 38 newspapers that have been published in the area around Kenwood.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Kenwood, there are papers which were published within 2 miles [3.2 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Kenwood.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Kenwood:

Footnotes ...

<1>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Kenwood, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Kenwood) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.