Do you know of Ridgewood Park ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Ridgewood Park, so we are uncertain whether Ridgewood Park is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Ridgewood Park would be found somewhere in New London County, Connecticut.

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 Ridgewood Park ...

We found seven communities that share the name Ridgewood Park.

Within Connecticut, the name Ridgewood Park is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
  - Mendocino County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Ridgewood Park [Mendocino County].
- Colorado
  - Arapahoe County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Ridgewood Park [Arapahoe County].
- Florida
  - Hillsborough County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Ridgewood Park [Hillsborough County].
- Georgia
  - Cobb County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Ridgewood Park [Cobb County].
- Minnesota
  - Ramsey 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 Minnesota community of Ridgewood Park [Ramsey County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Delaware 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 Pennsylvania community of Ridgewood Park [Delaware County].
- Virginia
  - Roanoke City
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Ridgewood Park [Roanoke City].

More Orphans in New London 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 New London County.

Aljen Heights	Lebanon Station
Allyns	Leonard Bridge
Ashwillet	Leonard's Bridge
Avery Hill	Lisbon
Avery's	Long Society
	Lyman Viaduct
Bill Hill
Borough	Montville station
Bozrah
Bozrahville	North Glenwood
Brighton Beach
Bundy Hill	Oswegatchie Hills
	Ox Hill
Campbell's Mills	Oxoboxo Lake
Centre Groton
Chestnut Hill	Pendleton Hill
Churchwood	Poquonock Switch
Comstock's Bridge	Portersville
	Prague
East Great Plain	Preston City
East Lyme Station
Ekonk Hill	Salem Four Corners
Enders Island	South Glenwoods
	Stonington Landing
Fairy Lake	Summit
Falls Switch
Ferry View Heights	Tafts
Franklin Square
	Uncasville - Oxoboxo Valley
Gardner's Lake
Giants Neck Heights	Walnut Hill
Gibbs	Wamphassuc Point
Goshen Hills	Washington Square
Griswold	Waterford Station
Groton Heights	Wauwecus Hill
Groton Lake Shores	West Side
	Westchester Corner
Jericho Hill	Westchester Station
Jordan Village	Westwood Park
	Willow Point
Laurel Hill

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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Ridgewood Park 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.