Do you know of Sandy Beach ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Sandy Beach, so we are uncertain whether Sandy Beach 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 Sandy Beach would be found somewhere in Norfolk 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.

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 Sandy Beach ...

We found fourteen communities that share the name Sandy Beach.

There is one other community in Massachusetts which is also named Sandy Beach.

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

Communities Located In Massachusetts ...
- Worcester County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Sandy Beach [Worcester County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alberta
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Sandy Beach.
- Connecticut
  - Litchfield County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Sandy Beach [Litchfield County].
- Delaware
  - Sussex County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Sandy Beach [Sussex County].
- Indiana
  - Carroll County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Sandy Beach [Carroll County].
- Maine
  - Penobscot County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Sandy Beach [Penobscot County].
- Michigan
  - Cass County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Sandy Beach [Cass County].
  - Saint Joseph County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Sandy Beach [Saint Joseph County].
- New York
  - Erie County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Sandy Beach [Erie County].
- Newfoundland and Labrador
  - Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Sandy Beach.
- Ohio
  - Auglaize County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Sandy Beach [Auglaize 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 Sandy Beach.
- Quebec
  - Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Sandy Beach.
- Saskatchewan
  - Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Sandy Beach.

More Orphans in Norfolk 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 Norfolk County.

Bald Hill	Medway Center
Bellingham Center	Millis - Clicquot
Bellingham Junction	Morrills
Brookline Hill
Brookline Junction	Nantasket
	Nash
Chapel	North Weymouth Station
Charles River	Norwood Central
Cottage Farm	Norwood Centre
Cumberland
	Pilgrim Village
Dedham Junction	Plainfield
Dover Center
Dry Pond	Quincy Adams

East Medway	Readville
East Randolph	Ridge Hill
	Rockdale
Farm Station	Rust Craft
Findlen
Fore River	South Franklin
Fort Bellingham	South Milford Station
Foxboro Center	South Randolph
Franklin Center	Stone Haven
	Strawberry Hill
Glen Echo	Surfside

Hancock Village	Tilton's
Hazelwood
Highlandville	Wadsworth Station
Holbrook Grove	Walnut Hill
Hyde Park	Walpole Junction
	Wellsley
Lake Crossing	West Dedham
Lake Hiawatha	Weymouth Centre
Lake Pearl	Windsor Gardens
Longwood	Wollaston Heights
	Wrentham Center
May Flower Park

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 Sandy Beach 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.