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Do you know of Bridge Junction ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Bridge Junction. 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 Bridge Junction.

We found mention of Bridge Junction as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Tazewell County, Illinois.

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.

Communities Also Named Bridge Junction ...

We found eight communities that share the name Bridge Junction.

There are three communities within Illinois that are also named Bridge Junction.

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

  • Communities Located In Illinois ...
    • Pulaski 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 Illinois community of Bridge Junction [Pulaski County].
    • Saint Clair 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 Illinois community of Bridge Junction [Saint Clair County].
    • Will 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 Illinois community of Bridge Junction [Will County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Crittenden 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 Arkansas community of Bridge Junction [Crittenden County].
    • Louisiana
      • Calcasieu Parish
      • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Bridge Junction [Calcasieu Parish].
    • Michigan
      • Bay 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 Michigan community of Bridge Junction [Bay County].
    • Utah
      • Weber 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 Utah community of Bridge Junction [Weber County].
    • West Virginia
      • Fayette 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 West Virginia community of Bridge Junction [Fayette County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Bridge Junction ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Tazewell 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 Tazewell County.

Bradley 
 Mackinaw Dells
CenterMackinaw Falls
CincinnatiMadison
ClevelandMenert
Collier'sMontpelier
Colts 
 Normandale
Danforth 
 Ossami Lake
Farmdale Junction 
FelkerPekin Junction
  
HainesSand Prairie
HainesvilleSands
HamiltonShaferville
HancockSpring Garden
HilliardSpring Lake
Hong Kong 
Hope MinesTullamore
  
Lake Erie JunctionValley View
LeslieVicic
Liberty 
Little DetroitWashington Junction
Lower PeoriaWesley Junction

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Bridge Junction 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.









 

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