Do you know of Fayetteville ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Fayetteville. 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 Fayetteville.
We found mention of Fayetteville as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Windham County, Vermont.
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 1825 and closed in 1882.
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 Fayetteville ...
We found eighteen communities that share the name Fayetteville.
Within Vermont, the name Fayetteville is unique.
Beyond Vermont, we know of another eighteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Talladega County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Fayetteville [Talladega County].
- Arkansas
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Fayetteville [Washington County].
- Georgia
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Fayetteville [Fayette County].
- Illinois
- Saint Clair County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Fayetteville [Saint Clair County].
- Indiana
- Lawrence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Fayetteville [Lawrence County].
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Fayetteville [Washington County].
- Kansas
- Clay 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 Kansas community of Fayetteville [Clay County].
- Missouri
- Johnson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Fayetteville [Johnson County].
- New York
- Onondaga County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Fayetteville [Onondaga County].
- North Carolina
- Cumberland County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Fayetteville [Cumberland County].
- Ohio
- Brown County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Fayetteville [Brown County].
- Oregon
- Linn County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Fayetteville [Linn County].
- Pennsylvania
- Allegheny County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Fayetteville [Allegheny County].
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Fayetteville [Franklin County].
- Tennessee
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Fayetteville [Lincoln County].
- Texas
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Fayetteville [Fayette County].
- West Virginia
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Fayetteville [Fayette County].
- Wisconsin
- Walworth 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 Wisconsin community of Fayetteville [Walworth County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Fayetteville ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Fayetteville:
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)
Published by the Government Printing Office
Fayetteville was listed as Fayetteville Courthouse.
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
Fayetteville was listed as Fayetteville Courthouse.
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers
Fayetteville was listed as Fayetteville Courthouse.
More Orphans in Windham 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 Windham 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek 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 Fayetteville 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |