Do you know of Red House Shoals ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Red House Shoals. 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 Red House Shoals.<1> Our sources for Red House Shoals (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 Red House Shoals other than they indicate that Red House Shoals would be found somewhere in Putnam County, West Virginia. From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1840 and closed in 1911. Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Red House Shoals ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Red House Shoals: Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2> Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Red House Shoals - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Rand McNally Map of West Virginia (1911)
More Orphans in Putnam 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 Putnam County. Footnotes ...
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