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Do you know of Peachtree ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Peachtree. 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 Peachtree.

Our sources for Peachtree (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 Peachtree other than they indicate that Peachtree would be found somewhere in Raleigh County, West Virginia.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1890 and closed  in 1907.

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 Peachtree ...

We found six communities that share the name Peachtree.

Within West Virginia, the name Peachtree is unique.

Beyond West Virginia, we know of another six communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Georgia
      • DeKalb County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Peachtree [DeKalb County].
      • Fulton 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 Georgia community of Peachtree [Fulton County].
    • Missouri
      • Jasper 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 Missouri community of Peachtree [Jasper County].
    • North Carolina
      • Cherokee County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Peachtree [Cherokee County].
    • Virginia
      • Botetourt County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Peachtree [Botetourt County].
      • Portsmouth City
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Peachtree [Portsmouth City].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Peachtree ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Peachtree:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Peachtree - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Raleigh 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 Raleigh County.

Amigo MineLick Run Junction
AtkinsvilleLoop Junction
  
Blue Jay JunctionMacAlpin
Bone LickMarsh Fork Junction
Bowyer Creek JunctionMarshes
BrooklinMasseysville
BrysonMunition
Burma 
 Ned
CallawayNesco
Cannelton Mine JunctionNeville
CitieNew
Cleve 
CoalgateOley
Collins JunctionOtis
Collins 
 Penman
Drews CreekPhillips
 Picard
East Gulf 
Eccles JunctionRowland
 Roxie
Flat Top Lake 
FlatsSemoco
ForestSink
FrancisSoak Creek
 Sunflower
Glen Daniel JunctionSutphin
Glen Junction 
GlomeraTablerock
 Tam
HamptonTrico
HarveyTruax
Hecla 
HotcoalViacova
HunterVista
  
JapWest Beckley
JawoodWest Raleigh
JonancyWigul
 Willabet
LaunaWoodbay
Lawson 

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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Peachtree 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/









 

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