Rural routes are still used all over the US. I'm a retired rural carrier in Ohio and my son is currently a rural carrier. Routes change constantly because of growth, so there's virtually no way of finding out what area a route number meant for a certain time period, sorry to say.
Sally Hindley In a message dated 11/18/2011 2:50:10 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: That is correct. I don't think they do this up north. Route 6 is really Rural Route 6 or RR6 which is a MAIL route not a street name. There are still places that have rural routes. My old address in FL was Route 6, Box 4 Plant City, FL. My house was on Quail Meadow Road. michele -----Original Message----- From: Bain Family Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 12:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Locations Having been raised in a rural area myself, my thought is that the "Route 6" is probably the post office route and not the name of the road. The post office probably divided up the area into several routes with each route assigned a mail carrier. The mail carrier for each route knew the names in each household and delivered mail accordingly. It probably has absolutely nothing to do with the name of the road or highway. I lived on Route 3 and there was no road or highway of that name. It was just the name of the route assigned to the mail carrier for our area. Lana Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
