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Guntersville Post Office

post office in Guntersville, United States of America

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ16891981 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Old Guntersville Post Office is a historic U.S. Post Office in Guntersville, Alabama. It was built in 1940–41 with federal Treasury Department funds in Colonial Revival style. The building houses a painting by Charles Russell Hardman. The Guntersville Post Office was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 16, 2010.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Guntersville Post Office” is post office in Guntersville, United States of America. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Guntersville, Post and Office, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1940, 2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Guntersville, Post and Office is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “post office in Guntersville, United States of America” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16891981. Authority coordinates are 34.359, -86.294. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1940 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Guntersville Post Office” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.