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Do you know of New Providence ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about New Providence. 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 New Providence. Our sources for New Providence (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 New Providence other than they indicate that New Providence would be found somewhere in Union County, New Jersey. From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1804. 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 New Providence ...We found thirteen communities that share the name New Providence. Within New Jersey, the name New Providence is unique. Beyond New Jersey, we know of another thirteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for New Providence ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about New Providence: Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2> Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for New Providence - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
North American Railroad Atlas - Northeast
Shell Oil Road Map for New Jersey (1956)
More Orphans in Union 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 Union County. Footnotes ...
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