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Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Brighton Park came from various goverment sources (GNIS, FIPS), we also found mention of Brighton Park in various books and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Brighton Park. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our Brighton Park data came from. The following list of references and mentions is incomplete.

 

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Brighton Park:
Services available in 1895: had a Railroad Station, an Express Office, no Post Office mentioned

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Great Lakes West
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2005
(Available from Amazon.com)

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

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for Brighton Park. See our Misc Page for Brighton Park for more information.

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/