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Do you know of Broad Mountain ???

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

Our sources for Broad Mountain (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 Broad Mountain other than they indicate that Broad Mountain would be found somewhere in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.

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 Broad Mountain ...

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Broad Mountain - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

North American Railroad Atlas - Northeast
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by RailfanDepot, 2020
(Available from Amazon.com)

Rand McNally Map of Pennsylvania (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Schuylkill 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 Schuylkill County.

AdamsNew Street
Allison'sNewton
ArtzNorth Penn
 Norwegian
Barry Station 
BarryOak Grove
BecksOrmonds
Big Mine Run Junction 
BlythePeoples
Bohrmans MillPinedale
BrockvillePreston Hill
Brownsville 
Buckley'sRappahannock
Bunker HillReber
 Reinerton - Orwin - Muir
CherryvilleRoan
ClamtownRock
Coles 
ColoradoSchneider
ConnorSchoentown
CresmontSeek
 Seltzer City
Dieners HallShaft
Dormer'sShenandoah Junction
DowSheppton - Oneida
 Silver Brook Junction
ElixerSilver Brook
EllwoodSilverbrook
 Sittler
Foot of MountainSpring Garden Junction
FowlersSpring Garden
 Staudtsville
GlendonSylliman
Greenbury 
 Thomaston
Hammon 
HillsideUpper Mahantango
Homesville 
 Valley Furnace
Kehley Run JunctionValley of Lakes
Kohinoor Junction 
 Wade
LeibWehr
LindnerWest Cressona
LongacreWest End
Lower MahantangoWest West Junction
Lower Saint ClairWestwood
 Wiggans
Mine Hill GapWilliam Penn
Mintzers 
Morris JunctionZehners
 Zion's Grove
New Boston Junction 









 

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