Do you know of East Chester ???

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

Our sources for East Chester (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 Chester other than they indicate that East Chester would be found somewhere in Rockingham County, New Hampshire.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1836 and closed  in 1903.

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 Chester ...

We found three communities that share the name East Chester.

Within New Hampshire, the name East Chester is unique.

Beyond New Hampshire, we know of another three communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these three communities, .

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • New York
    • Orange County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of East Chester [Orange County].
  • Nova Scotia
    • Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of East Chester.
  • South Carolina
    • Horry County
    • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of East Chester [Horry County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for East Chester ...

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

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 Chester - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

More Orphans in  Rockingham 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 Rockingham County.