Callaboose (US-KY)

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This extinct Post Office was on the ridge west of Bill Callaboose Creek (A branch of the Red River) 3 miles North of Campton. The name is said to be applied early in the 19th century to the inaccessible and inhospitable creek, where a steep sided ravine was virtually impossible to get out of when the creek level was high. This apparently reminded some early travellers of the Spanish word Calabozo meaning a "Place of Detention". The local post office was established on June 19th 1909, as Hardeman, probably for its first postmaster, George W. Hardeman, but in April 1911 it assumed the name Callaboose. No one seems to agree, even now, on the proper spelling of the name. Occasionaly one still comes across the folk etymological account of the female moonshiner named Calla who somehow got the post office named for her.

Callaboose Post Office, Wolfe County (1911/1935)

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