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Do you know of Ballston ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Ballston. 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 Ballston. Our sources for Ballston (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 Ballston other than they indicate that Ballston would be found somewhere in Saratoga County, New York. 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 Ballston ...We found three communities that share the name Ballston. Within New York, the name Ballston is unique. Beyond New York, we know of another three communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ballston ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Ballston: Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Ballston - Services available: had a Railroad Station, no Post Office mentioned List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Ballston was listed as Ballston Courthouse. Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Ballston was listed as Ballston Courthouse. U.S. Post Offices (1803)
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Ballston was listed as Ballston Courthouse. More Orphans in Saratoga 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 Saratoga County. Footnotes ...
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