Do you know of East Haverhill ???

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

Our sources for East Haverhill (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of East Haverhill other than they indicate that East Haverhill would be found somewhere in Essex County, Massachusetts.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1828 and closed  in 1896.

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 East Haverhill ...

We found one communities that share the name East Haverhill.

Within Massachusetts, the name East Haverhill is unique.

Beyond Massachusetts, there is another community also named East Haverhill in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • New Hampshire
    • Grafton County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of East Haverhill [Grafton County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for East Haverhill ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

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

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

George#&160;F. Cram Map of Massachusetts (1901)
Published by George F. Cram& Co.

The FIPS database contains an entry for East Haverhill.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 25/19435   (Place Name: East Haverhill)

County: Essex     (FIPS State/County: 25/009)

Class: U4

Identifies a populated place (ie- East Haverhill) which is wholly or substantially located within the boundaries of an incorporated place with a different name. The Part of Code identifies the incorporated place.

More Orphans in  Essex County ...

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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 Essex County.