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Do you know of Hartwick ???

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

Our sources for Hartwick (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 Hartwick other than they indicate that Hartwick would be found somewhere in Delaware County, Iowa.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1853 and closed  in 1872.

Communities Also Named Hartwick ...

We found three communities that share the name Hartwick.

There is one other community in Iowa which is also named Hartwick.

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

  • Communities Located In Iowa ...
    • Poweshiek County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Hartwick [Poweshiek County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Michigan
      • Osceola County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Hartwick [Osceola County].
    • New York
      • Otsego County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Hartwick [Otsego County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Hartwick ...

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

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

Article: Index to Abandoned Towns of Iowa
Taken from The Annals of Iowa (Volume 18, Issue 3 - Winter 1932)
Written by: Mott, David C.

More Orphans in  Delaware 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 Delaware County.

AbbeyvilleMilo
AlmiraMount Hope
Almoral Station 
 Orrin Glen
Barryville 
BayPlum Creek
BroadwayPlum Spring
 Poultney
Campton 
ColonySpring Branch
  
Golden PrairieTower Hill
Green Hill 
Grove CreekViola
  

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>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 Hartwick 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.
<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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