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Welcome to Brookside ...So far, we found very little information about Brookside. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Brookside to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Brookside, please Contact Us. Brookside would have been located within present day Watauga County<2>. The location of Brookside has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Brookside, you might consider that their post office opened in 1895. While the community is gone, the present day location for Brookside is 3,050 feet [930 m] above sea level.<4> In other words, the altitude of Brookside is about ½ mile above sea level. Time Zone: The area where Brookside was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time If Brookside still existed, it would have been in the (828) area code. Communities Also Named Brookside ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are two North Carolina communities named Brookside: This one is located in Watauga County and the other is located in Wayne County. Beyond North Carolina, there are 50 communities that are also named Brookside - they are located in Alabama (3), California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida (2), Illinois (2), Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts (2), Michigan (3), Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario (3), Pennsylvania (9), South Carolina (2), Tennessee, Utah, Vermont (2), Virginia (2), West Virginia and Wisconsin (2). For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Brookside. Communities near Brookside ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Brookside.
To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Brookside. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Brookside. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Brookside. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Brookside. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Brookside. See our Newspapers Page for Brookside. Adding Brookside to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Brookside in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Brookside was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6> We also found Brookside on a map titled Rand McNally Map of North Carolina (1911). For more details, see References and Mentions for Brookside. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Watauga County: www.wataugacounty.org/ The official website for State of North Carolina: https://www.nc.gov/ Footnotes ...
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