Do you know of Prospect Hill ???

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

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

We found eighteen communities that share the name Prospect Hill.

There is one other community in Massachusetts which is also named Prospect Hill.

Beyond Massachusetts, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, seventeen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

Communities Located In Massachusetts ...
- Plymouth County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Prospect Hill [Plymouth County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Connecticut
  - Fairfield County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Prospect Hill [Fairfield County].
  - Hartford 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 Connecticut community of Prospect Hill [Hartford County].
- Iowa
  - Des Moines 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 Iowa community of Prospect Hill [Des Moines County].
- Kansas
  - Washington 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 Kansas community of Prospect Hill [Washington County].
- Missouri
  - Saint Louis County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Prospect Hill [Saint Louis County].
- New York
  - Orange County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Prospect Hill [Orange County].
  - Saratoga 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 Prospect Hill [Saratoga County].
- North Carolina
  - Caswell County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Prospect Hill [Caswell County].
- Ohio
  - Delaware County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Prospect Hill [Delaware County].
  - Gallia County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Prospect Hill [Gallia County].
  - Hamilton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Prospect Hill [Hamilton County].
- Ontario
  - 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 Ontario community of Prospect Hill.
- Pennsylvania
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Prospect Hill [Jefferson County].
  - Lackawanna 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 Prospect Hill [Lackawanna County].
- Tennessee
  - Cannon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Prospect Hill [Cannon County].
- Vermont
  - Rutland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Prospect Hill [Rutland County].
- Virginia
  - Fairfax 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 Virginia community of Prospect Hill [Fairfax County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Prospect Hill ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in Middlesex 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 Middlesex County.

Acton Center	Mount Suburn
Assabet	Munroe
Atherton	Mystic Junction
Ayer Center
Ayer Junction	Nashoba
	North Acton Junction
Beaver Brook	North Cambridge Junction
Bell Rock	North Framingham
Bennett Hall	North Littleton
Billerica Center	North Somerville
Broadway	North Sommerville
Brookside	North Waltham
Burtt's	North Woburn Junction

Cabot	Oakland
Cedar Hill Camp	Ordway
Center
Chemistry	Park Street
Cherry Brook	Peperell Station
Chery Brook	Pepperell Center
City Farm	Pierces Bridge
Clematis Brook	Point of Pines
Cold Spring
College Hill	Roberts
Concord Junction	Rock Bottom

Dunstable Station	Salem Junction
	Sandy Pond
East Chelmsford	Saugus River Junction
East Everett	Shirley Compact
East Sudbury	Shirley Station
East Woburn	Shirley Village
Everett Junction	Somerville Highlands
	Somerville Junction
Fellsway	South Framingham
Fitchburg Crossing	South Reading
Framingham Centre	South Waltham
Framingham Junction	Stevens
Fresh Pond	Stony Brook
	Sudbury Center
Golden Cove
Groton Center	Tewksbury Center
Groton Junction	Townsend Center
	Turnpike
Harvard Square
Harwood	Union Market
Hill's Crossing	Union Square
Hopkinton Center
Hudson Center	Wakefield Center
	Waltham North
Inman Square	Wayland Center
	Wayside Inn
Kearney Square	West Billerica
Kendall Square	West Cambridge
	West Marlborough
Lake Street	West Watertown
Lockerville	West Woburn
	Westvale
Malden Station	Whitman's Crossing
Medford Junction	Whittenton
Middlesex Junction	Wigginsville
Middlesex	Wilmington Station
Mirror Lake	Winmere

Footnotes ...

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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 Prospect Hill 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.