A mill on the Mulberry Fork, named for early settler Gabriel Hanby, with its own post office open 1855-1866 and again 1870-1894. Named directly as a landmark in John T. Milner’s 1859 railroad survey report, on an alternate route considered for what became the South & North Alabama Railroad.
A genuinely separate operation from the Hanby mill and forge on Turkey Creek, miles away, run by John Hanby and his son David - different river, and a different fate: the Turkey Creek operation was destroyed in 1865, while this post office kept running for another three decades after. No source directly confirms a family relationship between Gabriel Hanby and John Hanby, but their birth years are suggestive: John (b. 1774) is close enough in age to Gabriel (b. 1786) to plausibly be his brother, both sons of Gabriel’s documented father, David Hanby (1745-1827) - a real inference from the ages involved, not a sourced fact.