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Cromona, Kentucky
Cromona is a small unincorporated community located in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky in Letcher County, Kentucky, United States. The Cromona post office has operated since 1916.〔http://webpmt.usps.gov/pmt007.cfm〕 Cromona is actually known as Haymond by the local residents. However, for reasons that are obscure, the post office was given a different name, Cromona. It was built as a coal town in 1916, and was named for the president of the Elk Horn Coal Corporation, Thomas N. Haymond.〔http://www.themountaineagle.com/news/2014-07-16/Features/Thomas_S_Haymond_was_influential_coal_man_in_Letch.html〕 The population of Haymond was 502 as of the 2010 census.
==Origins of the name==
Other locations in Eastern Kentucky have post offices with names different than that of the local towns. For example, the nearby town of Hemphill has a post office named Jackhorn. This was a common problem in the United States in the mid to late 19th century. In 1892, the United States Board on Geographic Names noted that the Post Office Department had "thousands of cases where the name of the post-office does not conform to the local name of the place."〔https://about.usps.com/publications/pub100/pub100_031.htm〕 Thousands of post office names were changed in the late 1890s in order to eliminate such confusion, but some examples of this have continued to present times.
Even understanding the confusion surrounding post office names, one still has to ask, where did the name "Cromona" originate? Interviews of long-term residents offer no clear answer. The closest name is Cremona, Italy, where Stradivarius built his famous violins. Are there any connections between a city in Italy and a small town in rural Eastern Kentucky? The answer is, yes. In the early 20th century, many Italian stonemasons were working throughout Letcher County, building public buildings and churches, many of which still exist today.〔Cooper, Deborah Adams. Images of America: Letcher County. Arcadia Publishing, 2011. ISBN 978-0-7385-8759-2.〕 So, perhaps the post office name was intended to honor these craftsmen.
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