Do you know of College Hill ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about College Hill. 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 College Hill.

Our sources for College Hill (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 College Hill other than they indicate that College Hill would be found somewhere in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1863 and closed in 1890.

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 College Hill ...

We found seventeen communities that share the name College Hill.

There is one other community in Massachusetts which is also named College Hill.

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

Communities Located In Massachusetts ...
- Worcester County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of College Hill [Worcester County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Columbia County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of College Hill [Columbia County].
- Florida
  - College Hill #1
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of College Hill.
- Indiana
  - Cass 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 Indiana community of College Hill [Cass County].
- Kansas
  - Cowley 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 Kansas community of College Hill [Cowley County].
- Kentucky
  - Madison County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of College Hill [Madison County].
- Mississippi
  - Lafayette County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of College Hill [Lafayette County].
- Missouri
  - Saint Louis County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of College Hill [Saint Louis County].
- Ohio
  - Athens 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 Ohio community of College Hill [Athens County].
  - Guernsey County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of College Hill [Guernsey County].
  - Hamilton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of College Hill [Hamilton County].
  - Knox County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of College Hill [Knox County].
- Oregon
  - Lane County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of College Hill [Lane County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Beaver County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of College Hill [Beaver County].
- Tennessee
  - Rhea County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of College Hill [Rhea County].
- Texas
  - Bowie County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of College Hill [Bowie County].
- Virginia
  - Lynchburg City
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of College Hill [Lynchburg City].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for College Hill ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for College Hill - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

More Orphans in Middlesex 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 Middlesex County.

Acton Center	Munroe
Assabet	Mystic Junction
Atherton
Ayer Center	Nashoba
Ayer Junction	North Acton Junction
	North Cambridge Junction
Beaver Brook	North Framingham
Bell Rock	North Littleton
Bennett Hall	North Somerville
Billerica Center	North Sommerville
Broadway	North Waltham
Brookside	North Woburn Junction
Burtt's
	Oakland
Cabot	Ordway
Cedar Hill Camp
Center	Park Street
Chemistry	Peperell Station
Cherry Brook	Pepperell Center
Chery Brook	Pierces Bridge
City Farm	Point of Pines
Clematis Brook	Prospect Hill
Cold Spring
Concord Junction	Roberts
	Rock Bottom
Dunstable Station
	Salem Junction
East Chelmsford	Sandy Pond
East Everett	Saugus River Junction
East Sudbury	Shirley Compact
East Woburn	Shirley Station
Everett Junction	Shirley Village
	Somerville Highlands
Fellsway	Somerville Junction
Fitchburg Crossing	South Framingham
Framingham Centre	South Reading
Framingham Junction	South Waltham
Fresh Pond	Stevens
	Stony Brook
Golden Cove	Sudbury Center
Groton Center
Groton Junction	Tewksbury Center
	Townsend Center
Harvard Square	Turnpike
Harwood
Hill's Crossing	Union Market
Hopkinton Center	Union Square
Hudson Center
	Wakefield Center
Inman Square	Waltham North
	Wayland Center
Kearney Square	Wayside Inn
Kendall Square	West Billerica
	West Cambridge
Lake Street	West Marlborough
Lockerville	West Watertown
	West Woburn
Malden Station	Westvale
Medford Junction	Whitman's Crossing
Middlesex Junction	Whittenton
Middlesex	Wigginsville
Mirror Lake	Wilmington Station
Mount Suburn	Winmere

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 College Hill 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/