Do you know of Brunswick ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Brunswick. 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 Brunswick.
Our sources for Brunswick (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 Brunswick other than they indicate that Brunswick would be found somewhere in Peoria County, Illinois.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1844 and closed in 1882.
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 Brunswick ...
We found 24 communities that share the name Brunswick.
There is one other community in Illinois which is also named Brunswick.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another 23 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 23 communities, 22 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Illinois ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Brunswick.
- Connecticut
- Windham County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Brunswick [Windham County].
- Georgia
- Glynn County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Brunswick [Glynn County].
- Indiana
- Maine
- Cumberland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Brunswick [Cumberland County].
- Maryland
- Frederick County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Brunswick [Frederick County].
- Michigan
- Muskegon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Brunswick [Muskegon County].
- Minnesota
- Kanabec County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Brunswick [Kanabec County].
- Mississippi
- Warren County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Brunswick [Warren County].
- Missouri
- Chariton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Brunswick [Chariton County].
- Nebraska
- Antelope County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Brunswick [Antelope County].
- Nevada
- New Mexico
- New York
- Rensselaer County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Brunswick [Rensselaer County].
- North Carolina
- Columbus County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Brunswick [Columbus County].
- Randolph 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 North Carolina community of Brunswick [Randolph County].
- Ohio
- Medina County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Brunswick [Medina County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Brunswick.
- Tennessee
- Shelby County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Brunswick [Shelby County].
- Texas
- Cherokee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Brunswick [Cherokee County].
- Virginia
- Brunswick County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Brunswick [Brunswick County].
- British Columbia
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Brunswick ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Brunswick:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers
Map from 1870 (unknown title/publisher)
More Orphans in Peoria 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 Peoria County.
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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Brunswick 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |