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Do you know of Arthursville ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Arthursville. 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 Arthursville.<1>

We found mention of Arthursville as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Kent County, Delaware.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1858 and closed  in 1861.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Arthursville ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

More Orphans in  Kent County ...

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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 Kent County.

Andrew's LakeHaslettville
 Houston Station
Big Stone Beach 
Blackston's Cross RoadsLittle Heaven - High Point
Bombay Hook 
 Marshy Hope Bridge
Camden - WyomingMasten
CanneryMoorton
CarterMount Moriah
Cheswood 
CowgillNorth Muderkill
 North Murderkill
DavisvilleNorthwest Dover Heights
Delshire - Hickory Dale 
Dover Base HousingPickering Beach
Duck CreekPinewood
  
East DoverRichardson Circle
Eastover HillsRising Sun - Lebanon
  
Foster's SidingSouth Muderkill
FredoniaSouth Murderkill
 Sowardtown
Garrisons Lake 
 West Dover
HairtleyWoodside East

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>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.
<3>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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