Do you know of Lockes Mills ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Lockes Mills. 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 Lockes Mills.
Our sources for Lockes Mills (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 Lockes Mills other than they indicate that Lockes Mills would be found somewhere in Oxford 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.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Lockes Mills ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Lockes Mills:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Lockes Mills - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
The FIPS database contains an entry for Lockes Mills.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 23/40875 (Place Name: Lockes Mills (RR name for Locke Mills))
County: Oxford (FIPS State/County: 23/017)
Class: X3
More Orphans in Oxford 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 Oxford County.