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Do you know of Dunstan ???

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

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

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 Dunstan ...

We found one communities that share the name Dunstan.

Within Maine, the name Dunstan is unique.

Beyond Maine, there is another community also named Dunstan in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Texas
      • Bastrop 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 Texas community of Dunstan [Bastrop County].

More Orphans in  Cumberland 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 Cumberland County.

Birch IslandLittle Falls - South Windham
Black PointLygonia
Blakes 
Bowery BeachMackworth Point
Bridgton CompactMallison Falls
Broad CoveMattocks
Brunswick CenterMayberry Hill
Brunswick Station 
Buggy MeetinghouseOceanview Harbor
 Olde Mill Brook
Cape Cottage Woods 
Chadbourne'sPeabbles Cove
Chase'sPejepscot
Clapboard IslandPenny's
Cooks MillsPlummer Island
CornishPumpkin Valley
Crescent Beach 
Cumberland JunctionRedbank Village
 The Ridge
Deering Centre 
Duck Pond CornerSabbathday Lake
Duck PondSaccarappa
 Scarborough Beach
East BaldwinScarborough Crossing
East North YarmouthSligo
East WindhamSmiths Mills
EvergreenSouth Portland Heights
 South Standish
Forest City LandingStickey River
Fort Williams 
Freeport CenterThompsons Point
 Town Farm Hill
Gorham CenterTwo Lights
Great Diamond Island 
 Union Station
Higgins 
Highland Lake VistaWardtown
Hunnewell HillWebb Mills
 West Gloucester
Ingall's HillWestbrook Junction
 Wildwood Park
Kings GrantWillard
  
The LedgesYarmouth Center
Little Diamond IslandYarmouthville

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 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 Dunstan 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.









 

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