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Do you know of East Jefferson ???

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

Our sources for East Jefferson (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 East Jefferson other than they indicate that East Jefferson would be found somewhere in Lincoln County, Maine.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1871 and closed  in 1905.

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 East Jefferson ...

We found one communities that share the name East Jefferson.

Within Maine, the name East Jefferson is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • New York
      • Schoharie County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of East Jefferson [Schoharie County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for East Jefferson ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

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

Rand McNally Map of Maine (1897)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Lincoln 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 Lincoln County.

Allens 
 Joice
Boothbay Harbor Center 
Bristol MillsMuscongus Bay
Broad Bay 
Bunker HillNew Milford
 Newcastle Center
Capitol IslandNobleboro' Station
 North Nobleboro
Damariscotta Center 
Davis IslandPatricktown
  
East NewcastleSheepscott Bridge
East Waldoboro'South Somerville
 Spruce Point
HaleySquirrel Island
Harrimans Point 
Hodgdon's MillsWaldboro
 Westport Station
Isle of Springs 

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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