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Do you know of Westwood Park ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Westwood Park. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Westwood Park.

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Westwood Park, so we are uncertain whether Westwood Park is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Westwood Park would be found somewhere in New London County, Connecticut.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named Westwood Park ...

We found six communities that share the name Westwood Park.

Within Connecticut, the name Westwood Park is unique.

Beyond Connecticut, we know of another six communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Louisiana
      • Caddo Parish
      • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Westwood Park [Caddo Parish].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Delaware County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Westwood Park [Delaware County].
    • Texas
      • Dallas County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Westwood Park [Dallas County].
      • Harris County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Westwood Park [Harris County].
    • Utah
      • Salt Lake County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Westwood Park [Salt Lake County].
    • Virginia
      • Fairfax County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Westwood Park [Fairfax County].

More Orphans in  New London County ...

Can you help?

As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in New London County.

Aljen HeightsLebanon Station
AllynsLeonard Bridge
AshwilletLeonard's Bridge
Avery HillLisbon
Avery'sLong Society
 Lyman Viaduct
Bill Hill 
BoroughMontville station
Bozrah 
BozrahvilleNorth Glenwood
Brighton Beach 
Bundy HillOswegatchie Hills
 Ox Hill
Campbell's MillsOxoboxo Lake
Centre Groton 
Chestnut HillPendleton Hill
ChurchwoodPoquonock Switch
Comstock's BridgePortersville
 Prague
East Great PlainPreston City
East Lyme Station 
Ekonk HillRidgewood Park
Enders Island 
 Salem Four Corners
Fairy LakeSouth Glenwoods
Falls SwitchStonington Landing
Ferry View HeightsSummit
Franklin Square 
 Tafts
Gardner's Lake 
Giants Neck HeightsUncasville - Oxoboxo Valley
Gibbs 
Goshen HillsWalnut Hill
GriswoldWamphassuc Point
Groton HeightsWashington Square
Groton Lake ShoresWaterford Station
 Wauwecus Hill
Jericho HillWest Side
Jordan VillageWestchester Corner
 Westchester Station
Laurel HillWillow Point

Footnotes ...

<1>If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Westwood Park could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.









 

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