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Do you know of Charlton Heights ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Charlton Heights. 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 Charlton Heights. Our sources for Charlton Heights (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 Charlton Heights other than they indicate that Charlton Heights would be found somewhere in Prince George's County, Maryland. From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1890 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 Charlton Heights ...We found one communities that share the name Charlton Heights. Within Maryland, the name Charlton Heights is unique. Beyond Maryland, there is another community also named Charlton Heights in the United States.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Charlton Heights ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Charlton Heights: Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1> Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Charlton Heights - Services available: had a Post Office, Express Office, no Railroad mentioned More Orphans in Prince George's 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 Prince George's County. Footnotes ...
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