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Do you know of Center Brunswick ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Center Brunswick. 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 Center Brunswick.

Our sources for Center Brunswick (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 Center Brunswick other than they indicate that Center Brunswick would be found somewhere in Rensselaer County, New York.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1893 and closed  in 1906.

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 Center Brunswick ...

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

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

The FIPS database contains an entry for Center Brunswick.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 36/13343   (Place Name: Center Brunswick (Brunswick))

County: Rensselaer     (FIPS State/County: 36/083)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Center Brunswick) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Rensselaer 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 Rensselaer County.

Alps 
 Nassau Lake
Bath 
Beehive CrossingSchodack Depot
Brainard StationSchodack
Burden LakeSnyder's Corners
 Snyders Lake
CastletonSouth Berlin
 South Stephentown
East AlbanyStillman Village
East Schaghticoke 
Eat PoestenkillTaconic Lake
 Tiashoke
Fort Orange 
 Van Housen
Greenbush 
 West Berlin
HillviewWest Valley Falls
 White Creek
MuitzeskillWyanantskill

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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