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Do you know of Atlantic ???

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

We found mention of Atlantic as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Suffolk County, Massachusetts.

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.

Communities Also Named Atlantic ...

We found 21 communities that share the name Atlantic.

There are three communities within Massachusetts that are also named Atlantic.

Beyond Massachusetts, we know of another eighteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eighteen communities, twenty are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Located In Massachusetts ...
    • Essex 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 Massachusetts community of Atlantic [Essex County].
    • Norfolk County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Atlantic [Norfolk County].
    • Plymouth County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Atlantic [Plymouth County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Colorado
      • Gunnison 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 Colorado community of Atlantic [Gunnison County].
    • Iowa
      • Cass County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Atlantic [Cass County].
    • Maine
      • Hancock County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Atlantic [Hancock County].
    • Michigan
      • Houghton 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 Atlantic [Houghton County].
    • New Hampshire
      • Rockingham County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Atlantic [Rockingham County].
    • New Jersey
      • Monmouth 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 New Jersey community of Atlantic [Monmouth County].
    • New York
      • Richmond 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 New York community of Atlantic [Richmond County].
    • North Carolina
      • Carteret County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Atlantic [Carteret County].
    • Nova Scotia
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Atlantic.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Clearfield County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Atlantic [Clearfield County].
      • Crawford County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Atlantic [Crawford County].
      • Fayette County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Atlantic [Fayette County].
      • Somerset 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 Atlantic [Somerset County].
      • Westmoreland County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Atlantic [Westmoreland County].
    • Virginia
      • Accomack County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Atlantic [Accomack County].
      • Virginia Beach City
      • 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 Virginia community of Atlantic [Virginia Beach City].
    • West Virginia
      • Mineral 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 West Virginia community of Atlantic [Mineral County].
      • Preston County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Atlantic [Preston County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Atlantic ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Atlantic:

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Atlantic - Services available: had a Railroad Station, Express Office, no Post Office mentioned

More Orphans in  Suffolk 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 Suffolk County.

Arnold 
AstorKenmore
  
Back Bay AnnexLong Island
Beach 
Black BagMystic Wharf
Boylston 
 North Chelsea
Cary Cut 
CathedralOcean Spray
Central 
ChickeringParker Hill
 Pope's Hill
Deer IslandPrudential Center
Dorchester Lower Mills 
 Reservoir Station
Eggleston SquareRevere Beach
Essex 
 Shawmut
ForbesShirley
Forest HillShore Line Junction
Fort HeathSouth End
  
Granite BridgeThornton
 Tremont
Harbor View 
Harrison SquareWinthrop Centre
HilandsWinthrop Junction
 Wood Island
Ingall's 

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 Atlantic 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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