![]() According to this version, after his first choice was rejected the official wrote to federal authorities that if his original request could not be used, he preferred for the post office to be nameless. In the 1982 book Blue Highways: A Journey Into America, William Least Heat-Moon reported a variant explanation in which the residents themselves decided that the community should be "nameless" after one of them said "This here’s a nameless place if I ever seen one, so leave it be." Another variation of the story was provided in a 1933 article in the Jackson County Sentinel newspaper, which said that a local official had initially sought to name the post office "Morgan" for county attorney general George Morgan, but the Post Office Department had rejected that name, possibly because the name "Morgan" was still associated in people's minds with the Confederacy, including Confederate Army General John Hunt Morgan. ![]() Post Office Department returned the application with "Nameless" stamped on the form. One version of the name's origin holds that when residents applied for a post office, the place for a name on the application was left blank, and the U.S. ![]() The community's unusual name has attracted attention from writers. Nameless is an unincorporated community in Jackson County, Tennessee, United States. ![]()
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