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The result was delete‎. The Wordsmith^{Talk to me} 21:18, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yelling Settlement, Alabama (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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Geolocates to a pair of grand-ish houses, but searching produces no explanation for the peculiar name or why the topos put a label here. Hard to see how this is a notable place. Mangoe (talk) 17:06, 29 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment: I came up with nothing searching the Wikipedia Library, etc. The 1921 topographic map doesn't show a "Yelling Settlement"; it appears starting in the 1940s a a few homes no clustered in any particular way. It's possible this may have been a freedmen's settlement shortly after the Civil War; in that case the community might have partially dissipated in the 50+ years before the first topo was printed. I found an interesting article about the black mayor of a small town nearby whose grandmother had grown up in Yellingville. If this was a freedman's settlement, it would be nice to have a good article about it but we don't have sources so far. Mangoe, thanks for flagging this one. --A. B. ^{(talk • contribs • global count)} 20:05, 29 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Findagrave.com is not a reliable source but this entry for Viney Morse Yelling gives some interesting information. Viney married "Aaron Yelling of Yellingville, located in Belforest, Baldwin County, Alabama." --A. B. ^{(talk • contribs • global count)} 20:14, 29 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Alabama. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 20:16, 29 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• There was a county project a few years ago to get the names of all of the early settlers in Baldwin County, Alabama, and Louis Yelling's name is on the list against Yellingville. Unfortunately, said Louis Yelling also said "I am a resident of Daphne, Baldwin County, Alabama". I've checked several Baldwin histories, and there's nothing. This looks like an early Baldwin County settlement, many of which were not formally documented anyway, that has been lost to history.

  Our introduction to Malbis, Alabama does a truly terrible job of explaining one of the settlements around Daphne that was not lost to history.

  Uncle G (talk) 21:22, 29 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:17, 6 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• del nn per WP:NGEO: no refs cited besides database. - Altenmann >talk 00:00, 7 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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