Do you know of Brownstown ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Brownstown. 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 Brownstown.<1>
Our sources for Brownstown (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Brownstown other than they indicate that Brownstown would be found somewhere in Kanawha County, West Virginia.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1876 and closed in 1900.
Communities Also Named Brownstown ...
We found seventeen communities that share the name Brownstown.
There is one other community in West Virginia which is also named Brownstown.
Beyond West Virginia, we know of another sixteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In West Virginia ...
- Cabell County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Brownstown [Cabell County].
- Cabell County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Sumter County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Brownstown [Sumter County].
- Arkansas
- Sevier County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Brownstown [Sevier County].
- Illinois
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Brownstown [Fayette County].
- Indiana
- Crawford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Brownstown [Crawford County].
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Brownstown [Jackson County].
- Maryland
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Brownstown [Montgomery County].
- Michigan
- Wayne County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Brownstown [Wayne County].
- Ohio
- Brown County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Brownstown [Brown County].
- Butler County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Brownstown [Butler County].
- Ross County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Brownstown [Ross County].
- Wyandot County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Brownstown [Wyandot County].
- Pennsylvania
- Armstrong County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Brownstown [Armstrong County].
- Cambria County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Brownstown [Cambria County].
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Brownstown [Fayette County].
- Lancaster County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Brownstown [Lancaster County].
- Washington
- Yakima County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Brownstown [Yakima County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Brownstown ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Brownstown:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Brownstown - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office
More Orphans in Kanawha 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 Kanawha County.
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. |
| <2> | 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 Brownstown 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. |
| <3> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |