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Do you know of Foster Park ???

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

Our sources for Foster Park (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 Foster Park other than they indicate that Foster Park would be found somewhere in Marion County, Florida.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1885 and closed  in 1892.

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 Foster Park ...

We found one communities that share the name Foster Park.

Within Florida, the name Foster Park is unique.

Beyond Florida, there is another community also named Foster Park in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • California
      • Ventura County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Foster Park [Ventura County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Foster Park ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

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

More Orphans in  Marion 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 Marion County.

AgnewMarion Mines
 Marshville
Baker'sMcAllister
BenedictMcCain
BlichtonMcFall
Blue SpringMinehead
 Morganville
Churchill 
ClarksvilleOakcrest
CottonplantOaklawn
 Ocala West
DaisyOklawaha
  
Eagle MinesParkersburgh
East LakePeoples City
EichelbergersPlaza
ElmwoodPollys Mill
 Proctor
Fairview 
FakesRock Springs
FantvilleRockwell
Fessenden 
 Silver Springs Junction
GreenleafSouth Lake Weir
 South Ocala
HarvardSpring Park
HayesSummit
 Sunnyside
Kimbrough 
KirklandWeir Park
 Welshton
Lake KerrWest End
LeitnerWyoma
  

Footnotes ...

<1>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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