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Do you know of Breneman ???

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

Our sources for Breneman (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 Breneman other than they indicate that Breneman would be found somewhere in Washington County, Pennsylvania.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1886 and closed  in 1899.

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 Breneman ...

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

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

More Orphans in  Washington 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 Washington County.

Acme 
AndersonKaren
Atchinson 
 La Gonda
BairdLimetown
BamfordLindley's Mills Station
BancroftLindley's Mills
BartholdiLucyville
Beck's MillsLuellen
Belle Vernon Station 
BellfieldMannington
BurnsvilleMaple
 McKean
CardvilleMeadowleads
Cecil - BishopMeloy
CentralMonarch
Clarksville 
ClokeyNolton
Coal Bluff 
Cross Creek VillagePalanka
CrothersPitco
  
DonelyRaccoon
DonsfortRacine
DunnRepublican
Dunns StationRichfol
  
East BethlehemSaint Cloud
East BuffaloShaw Mine
EllwoodSouth Burgettstown
ElvillaSunset
England 
EutawTopsail
 Tylerdale Junction
Fallowfield 
FargoVienna
Finneydale 
Fisher - EldoraWashington North
Fisher HeightsWashington West
FortuneWebster
Francis MineWesco
 West Belle Vernon
GarwoodWest Brownsville Junction
GeorgeWest Columbia
GilmoreWest Monesson
Greer'sWickerham Manor - Fisher
 Wilna
Harmon's CreekWood Run
HazzardWood's Run
HillsWyland
Houston Run 
HoustonvilleZollarsville
Hyland 

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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