Do you know of Freeport ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Freeport. 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 Freeport.
Our sources for Freeport (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 Freeport other than they indicate that Freeport would be found somewhere in Queens 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 Freeport ...
We found 25 communities that share the name Freeport.
There is one other community in New York which is also named Freeport.
Beyond New York, we know of another 24 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 24 communities, 22 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Located In New York ...
- Nassau County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Freeport [Nassau County].
- Nassau County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Freeport [Montgomery County].
- California
- Sacramento County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Freeport [Sacramento County].
- Florida
- Walton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Freeport [Walton County].
- Illinois
- Stephenson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Freeport [Stephenson County].
- Indiana
- Jackson County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Freeport [Jackson County].
- Shelby County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Freeport [Shelby County].
- Iowa
- Winneshiek County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Freeport [Winneshiek County].
- Kansas
- Harper County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Freeport [Harper County].
- Maine
- Cumberland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Freeport [Cumberland County].
- Michigan
- Barry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Freeport [Barry County].
- Minnesota
- Stearns County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Freeport [Stearns County].
- Nebraska
- Banner County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Freeport [Banner County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Freeport.
- Ohio
- Harrison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Freeport [Harrison County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Freeport.
- Pennsylvania
- Quebec
- Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Freeport.
- Texas
- Virginia
- Gloucester County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Freeport [Gloucester County].
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Freeport ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Freeport:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Freeport - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
Rand McNally Map of New York (1897)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Queens 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 Queens County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Freeport could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |