Do you know of Assabet ???

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

We found mention of Assabet as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1850 and closed in 1871.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Assabet ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in Middlesex 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 Middlesex County.

Acton Center	Nashoba
Atherton	North Acton Junction
Ayer Center	North Cambridge Junction
Ayer Junction	North Framingham
	North Littleton
Beaver Brook	North Somerville
Bell Rock	North Sommerville
Bennett Hall	North Waltham
Billerica Center	North Woburn Junction
Broadway
Brookside	Oakland
Burtt's	Ordway

Cabot	Park Street
Cedar Hill Camp	Peperell Station
Center	Pepperell Center
Chemistry	Pierces Bridge
Cherry Brook	Pogus
Chery Brook	Point of Pines
City Farm	Prospect Hill
Clematis Brook
Cold Spring	Roberts
College Hill	Rock Bottom
Concord Junction
	Salem Junction
Dunstable Station	Sandy Pond
	Saugus River Junction
East Chelmsford	Shirley Compact
East Everett	Shirley Station
East Sudbury	Shirley Village
East Woburn	Shirleyville
Ellsworth	Somerville Highlands
Everett Junction	Somerville Junction
	South Farmingham
Fellsway	South Framingham
Feltonsville	South Groton
Fitchburg Crossing	South Malden
Framingham Centre	South Reading
Framingham Junction	South Waltham
Fresh Pond	South Woburn
	Stevens
Golden Cove	Stony Brook
Groton Center	Sudbury Center
Groton Junction
	Tewksbury Center
Harvard Square	Townsend Center
Harwood	Turnpike
Hill's Crossing
Hopkinton Center	Union Market
Hudson Center	Union Square

Inman Square	Wakefield Center
	Waltham North
Kearney Square	Warnerville
Kendall Square	Wayland Center
	Wayside Inn
Lake Street	West Billerica
Lockerville	West Cambridge
	West Littleton
Malden Station	West Marlborough
Medford Junction	West Watertown
Middlesex Junction	West Woburn
Middlesex	Westvale
Mirror Lake	Whitman's Crossing
Mount Suburn	Whittenton
Munroe	Wigginsville
Mystic Junction	Wilmington Station
	Winmere

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>	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.
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/