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Welcome to Brooklyn ...So far, we found very little information about Brooklyn. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Brooklyn to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Brooklyn, please Contact Us. Brooklyn would have been located within present day Alameda County<2>. We aren't confident of the location of Brooklyn, so consider the above location as an estimate.<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Brooklyn, you might consider that their post office opened in 1855. When the people of Brooklyn referred to themselves (known as a demonym), they are believed to have used Brooklynite<4> Time Zone: The area where Brooklyn was located is in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time In the past, Brooklyn was named Antonio. and Clinton. For more information about the names of Brooklyn, see The Names of Brooklyn on our Genealogy Page. Communities Also Named Brooklyn ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 63 communities that are also named Brooklyn - they are located in Alabama (3), Connecticut, Florida (2), Georgia (3), Illinois (4), Indiana, Iowa, Kansas (5), Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland (2), Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi (3), Missouri, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Jersey, New York (3), Newfoundland and Labrador, North Carolina (2), Nova Scotia (4), Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania (4), Prince Edward Island (2), South Carolina (3), Texas, Utah (2), Virginia (2), Washington, West Virginia (2) and Wisconsin. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Brooklyn. Communities near Brooklyn ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Brooklyn.
To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Brooklyn. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Brooklyn. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Brooklyn. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Brooklyn. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Brooklyn. See our Newspapers Page for Brooklyn. Adding Brooklyn to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Brooklyn in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Brooklyn was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6> We also found Brooklyn in the book titled List of Post Offices in the United States (1870). For more details, see References and Mentions for Brooklyn. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Alameda County: www.acgov.org/ The official website for State of California: https://www.ca.gov/ Footnotes ...
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