Do you know of Thomaston ???

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

We found mention of Thomaston as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located 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.

Communities Also Named Thomaston ...

We found nine communities that share the name Thomaston.

Within Pennsylvania, the name Thomaston is unique.

Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Marengo County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Thomaston [Marengo County].
- Connecticut
  - Litchfield County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Thomaston [Litchfield County].
- Georgia
  - Upson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Thomaston [Upson County].
- Indiana
  - LaPorte County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Thomaston [LaPorte County].
- Maine
  - Knox County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Thomaston [Knox County].
- Michigan
  - Gogebic County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Thomaston [Gogebic County].
- New York
  - Nassau County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Thomaston [Nassau County].
  - Queens 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 New York community of Thomaston [Queens County].
- Texas
  - DeWitt County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Thomaston [DeWitt County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Thomaston ...

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

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Thomaston - Services available: had a Railroad Station, no Post Office mentioned

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.

Adams
Allison's	New Boston Junction
Artz	New Street
	Newton
Barry Station	North Penn
Barry	Norwegian
Becks
Big Mine Run Junction	Oak Grove
Blythe	Ormonds
Bohrmans Mill
Broad Mountain	Peoples
Brockville	Pinedale
Brownsville	Preston Hill
Buckley's
Bunker Hill	Rappahannock
	Reber
Cherryville	Reinerton - Orwin - Muir
Clamtown	Roan
Coles	Rock
Colorado
Connor	Schneider
Cresmont	Schoentown
	Seek
Dieners Hall	Seltzer City
Dormer's	Shaft
Dow	Shenandoah Junction
	Sheppton - Oneida
Elixer	Silver Brook Junction
Ellwood	Silver Brook
	Silverbrook
Foot of Mountain	Sittler
Fowlers	Spring Garden Junction
	Spring Garden
Glendon	Staudtsville
Greenbury	Sylliman

Hammon	Upper Mahantango
Hillside
Homesville	Valley Furnace
	Valley of Lakes
Kehley Run Junction
Kohinoor Junction	Wade
	Wehr
Leib	West Cressona
Lindner	West End
Longacre	West West Junction
Lower Mahantango	Westwood
Lower Saint Clair	Wiggans
	William Penn
Mine Hill Gap
Mintzers	Zehners
Morris Junction	Zion's Grove

Footnotes ...

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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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek 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 Thomaston 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.