I found a list of post offices for Guilford County, and I posted that to the website on a separate page. Then I decided that I needed to go beyond that, and I've spent a good chunk of time over the last several days setting up a new page for the Guilford County NCGenWeb site, which has a gazetteer of geographical names associated with the county. I am still adding to it, so it certainly isn't complete, and the website's search engine won't incorporate the contents until the search engine runs its weekly update sometime in the next 24 hours or so. However, I thought I'd go ahead and post notice about this. If you have any names you'd like to see defined and added, please let me know. Hopefully, I won't be buried in an avalanche of those! I have gone over my NC atlas section on Guilford, but I haven't pulled out my county map book yet. And I can see some names on the Hughes map of early settlers that aren't in the atlas, so I'll have to tackle all of those as well. What I'd like to do is build a page that can be used as a resource when working in land records for the county. For now, I am trying to stick to the territory that is currently Guilford and wasn't cut off to form Randolph or Rowan counties from "Old Guilford County." And, while including some lakes that were man-made during the early 1900's, I will try to leave out anything from 1950 on. If you know the history of the feature's name, or anything about name changes, that would be helpful. But please do remember to cite all known sources for any information. And, for those who like to laugh at the name, yes, Stinking Quarter Creek is on the list. The website's gazetteer page is here: _http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncguilfo/Gazetteer.html_ (http://www.roo tsweb.com/~ncguilfo/Gazetteer.html) You'll find both that page and the post office page linked to the main index page, in the section that has local history and maps. The post office list has been incorporated into the gazetteer page, so there's no particular need to check that list separately. But I do need to investigate some probable misspellings in that list, which I obtained from another source given to me in a USGenWeb newsletter. I suspect that "Bloomimton" is actually "Bloomington." And surely "Gilher's Store" would be "Gilmer's Store." Anyone know anything about either place? Katherine Dick Benbow County Coordinator, Guilford County NCGenWeb _http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncguilfo/index.html_ (http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncguilfo/) ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com

Remember I do have 2 Cemetery books for Guilford County. You can also get their Register of Deeds on line. Tho they seem to change the way you have to enter it. Last time I tried to check something I wasn's able to open it. It's almost like if you're lucky we let you in type thing. ----- Original Message ----- From: <BenbowKD@aol.com> To: <NCGUILFO@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 9:58 PM Subject: [NCGUILFO] new gazetteer page for Guilford NCGenWeb + post officenames >I found a list of post offices for Guilford County, and I posted that to >the > website on a separate page. Then I decided that I needed to go beyond > that, > and I've spent a good chunk of time over the last several days setting up > a > new page for the Guilford County NCGenWeb site, which has a gazetteer of > geographical names associated with the county. I am still adding to it, > so it > certainly isn't complete, and the website's search engine won't > incorporate the > contents until the search engine runs its weekly update sometime in the > next > 24 hours or so. However, I thought I'd go ahead and post notice about > this. > > If you have any names you'd like to see defined and added, please let me > know. Hopefully, I won't be buried in an avalanche of those! I have > gone over > my NC atlas section on Guilford, but I haven't pulled out my county map > book > yet. And I can see some names on the Hughes map of early settlers that > aren't in the atlas, so I'll have to tackle all of those as well. What > I'd like > to do is build a page that can be used as a resource when working in land > records for the county. For now, I am trying to stick to the territory > that is > currently Guilford and wasn't cut off to form Randolph or Rowan counties > from > "Old Guilford County." And, while including some lakes that were > man-made > during the early 1900's, I will try to leave out anything from 1950 on. > > If you know the history of the feature's name, or anything about name > changes, that would be helpful. But please do remember to cite all known > sources > for any information. > > And, for those who like to laugh at the name, yes, Stinking Quarter Creek > is > on the list. > > The website's gazetteer page is here: > _http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncguilfo/Gazetteer.html_ (http://www.roo > tsweb.com/~ncguilfo/Gazetteer.html) > > You'll find both that page and the post office page linked to the main > index > page, in the section that has local history and maps. The post office > list > has been incorporated into the gazetteer page, so there's no particular > need > to check that list separately. But I do need to investigate some > probable > misspellings in that list, which I obtained from another source given to > me in > a USGenWeb newsletter. I suspect that "Bloomimton" is actually > "Bloomington." And surely "Gilher's Store" would be "Gilmer's Store." > Anyone know > anything about either place? > > Katherine Dick Benbow > County Coordinator, Guilford County NCGenWeb > _http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncguilfo/index.html_ > (http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncguilfo/) > > > > > ************************************** See what's new at > http://www.aol.com > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NCGUILFO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message