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Do you know of Cummington West Village ???

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

We found mention of Cummington West Village as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Hampshire 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 1831 and closed  in 1882.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Cummington West Village ...

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

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

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

More Orphans in  Hampshire 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 Hampshire County.

BabylonHatfield Center
Barret's JunctionHatfield Station
Barretts 
Belchertown CenterMiddlefield Station
Blush Hollow 
 Pansy Park
Canal JunctionPine Island Lake
 Prescott
Falls 
 Sixteen Acres
GibbsSmith's Ferry
Granby CenterSmiths
Greenwich Village 
 West Cunningham
Hampton MillsWoodlawn

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/









 

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