Do you know of Dresden ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Dresden. 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 Dresden.
We found mention of Dresden as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Sagadahoc County, Maine.
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 Dresden ...
We found nineteen communities that share the name Dresden.
There is one other community in Maine which is also named Dresden.
Beyond Maine, we know of another eighteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eighteen communities, eighteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Maine ...
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Dresden [Lincoln County].
- Lincoln County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Georgia
- Coweta County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Dresden [Coweta County].
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Missouri
- New York
- North Carolina
- Ashe County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Dresden [Ashe County].
- North Dakota
- Cavalier County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Dresden [Cavalier County].
- Ohio
- Muskingum County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Dresden [Muskingum County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Dresden.
- South Carolina
- Abbeville County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Dresden [Abbeville County].
- Tennessee
- Weakley County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Dresden [Weakley County].
- Texas
- Navarro County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Dresden [Navarro County].
- Georgia
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Dresden ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Dresden:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Dresden - Services available: had a Railroad Station, Express Office, no Post Office mentioned
The FIPS database contains an entry for Dresden.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 23/18510 (Place Name: Dresden (Dresden Mills))
County: Sagadahoc (FIPS State/County: 23/023)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, Dresden) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
More Orphans in Sagadahoc 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 Sagadahoc County.
| Bayview | |
| Richmond Camp Meeting | |
| Cliffstone | Richmond Center |
| Cook's | Riggsville |
| East Bowdoinham | Sanborns |
| Simpsons | |
| New Meadows | |
| Topsham Center | |
| Parker's Head | |
| Pejepscot Mills | West Woolwich |
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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Dresden 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. |