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Do you know of Old Hickory ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Old Hickory. 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 Old Hickory. We found mention of Old Hickory as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Botetourt 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. From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1851 and closed in 1890. 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 Old Hickory ...We found four communities that share the name Old Hickory. Within Virginia, the name Old Hickory is unique. Beyond Virginia, we know of another four communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Old Hickory ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Old Hickory: Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2> List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
More Orphans in Botetourt 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 Botetourt County. Footnotes ...
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