Post Offices of Carroll County
 

 

Home
Up
Connect With Others
Look-Up Volunteers
Libraries
Military
Family Outlines
Vital Records
History
Cemeteries
Obituaries
Census
Biographies
Pictures & Postcards

POST OFFICE

TOWNSHIP

TIME FRAME

POST MASTERS

NOTES

Spring Valley

Cherry Grove

1853-61

Charles P. Knight

To Shannon

Elkhorn Grove

Elkhorn Grove

1837-48

Samples M. Journey

To Eagle Point

Elkhorn Grove

Elkhorn Grove

1849-1900

Joseph Gorgas

To Polo

Hazelhurst

Elkhorn Grove

1888-1905

Jacob C. Warble

Moved to Hazlehurst in Ogle Co.

Hitt

Elkhorn Grove

1884-1900

William W. Chaffee

To Polo

Tysonville

Elkhorn Grove

1844-45

Abijah Paynter

Black Oak

Fairhaven

1884-86

John M. Haag

Went to Mt. Carroll

Chadwick

Fairhaven

1886

Jacob Supauch, 2nd Wm. H. Rummel

Fairhaven

Fairhaven

1850-52

Daniel P. Holt

Fairhaven

Fairhaven

1854

Jacob R. Garnhart

Reopened Feb. stopped Oct.

Fairhaven

Fairhaven

1857-1906

Elijah H. Holt

To Thomson

Cherry Grove

Freedom

1836-61

Simon Fellows

Went to Lanark

Plum River

Freedom

1843-46

George W. Harris

West Plum River

Freedom

1839-42

Whipple C. Ward

To Pleasant Valley, Jo Daviess Co.

Keltner

Freedom

1892-1904

Jesse Ballard

To Lanark

Jacobsville

Mt. Carroll

1852-54

Benjamin Jacobs

Mt. Carroll

Mt. Carroll

1845

John Wilson; 2nd George W. Harris

Panama

Mt. Carroll

1840-42

Albert Hawley

Wacker

Mt. Carroll

1894-1906

Wm. A. Bird

To Savanna

Lanark

Rock Creek

1861

Emanuel Stover; 2nd Thomas W. Newcomer

Nursery

Rock Creek

1885-1901

John V. Cotta

To Lanark

Rock Creek

Rock Creek

1843-83

David Becker

To Mt. Carroll

Daggett

Salem

1887-88

Henry Daggert

To Mt. Carroll

Daggett

Salem

1889-1906

Wm. A. Bird

Savanna

Savanna

1835

Luther H. Bowen; 2nd Wm. L. B. Jenks

Shannon

Shannon

1861

Leonard M. Healey; 2nd Samuel H. Shelly

Portsmouth

Washington

1839-40

John Wakefield

Back to Hanover

Barth (see Zion)

Woodland

1905 (May-Oct)

Margaret Barth

Went to Savanna, Oct.

Polsgrove

Woodland

1857-80

John W. Eacker; 2nd Adam Polsgrove

Zion

Woodland

1881-1905

Charles H. Mitchell

To Barth

Milledgeville

Wysox

1844

Jacob W. McCourtie; 2nd Henry M. Baker

Bluffville

York

1849-67

Norman S. French

Ideal

York

1891-19002

Sylvanus R. Atherton

To Mt. Carroll

Johnsons Creek

York

1868-82

Henry Homidue

To Fair Haven

Sandville

York

Mar to May 1865

James G. Holman

To Thomson

Thomson

York

1865

James G. Holman; 2nd Peter Holman

Argo

York

1851-01

Robert Artt

Transferred to Ideal

Armenian

1861-65

Henry W. Gillette

Possibly in Washington Twp.

Ashford

1856-57

George Ashby

Possibly Savanna Twp.

Source: Carroll County : a goodly heritage; Mt. Morris, Ill.: Kable Print. Co., 1968

From the Post Office Directory of Illinois, 1884, as printed in Chas. O. Ebel & Co's Terre Haute Directory & Vigo County Gazetteer Terre Haute, Ind. Compiled & Published by Chas. O. Ebel & Co. 1884

Argo
Elkhorn Grove
Fair Haven
Lanark
Milledgeville
Mt Carroll
Rock Creek
Savanna
Shannon
Thomson
Zion