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Do you know of Brickton ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Brickton. 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 Brickton.

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Brickton, so we are uncertain whether Brickton 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 Brickton would be found somewhere in La Salle County, Illinois.

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 Brickton ...

We found seven communities that share the name Brickton.

Within Illinois, the name Brickton is unique.

Beyond Illinois, we know of another seven communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seven communities, six are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Florida
      • Escambia County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Brickton [Escambia County].
    • Kansas
      • Montgomery County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Brickton [Montgomery County].
    • Michigan
      • Muskegon 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 Michigan community of Brickton [Muskegon County].
    • Minnesota
      • Mille Lacs County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Brickton [Mille Lacs County].
    • Nebraska
      • Adams County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Brickton [Adams County].
    • North Carolina
      • Henderson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Brickton [Henderson County].
    • Nova Scotia
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Brickton.

More Orphans in  La Salle 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 La Salle County.

Arrow 
AsburyMidway
 Miner
BraysonMission Point
Burgess JunctionMunson Station
 Munster
Coal Track 
 North Ottawa
Deer Park Glen 
Deer Park StationPiety Hill
  
East WenonaReinhard
 Rockwell
Farrell 
FreedomSheridan Junction
 Streator East
GallowayStreator West
Glen ParkSunrise
  
La Salle - PeruTrek
LockTwin Bluffs

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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Brickton 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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