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