Do you know of Fresh Pond ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Fresh Pond. 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 Fresh Pond.

We found mention of Fresh Pond as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

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.

Communities Also Named Fresh Pond ...

We found four communities that share the name Fresh Pond.

Within Massachusetts, the name Fresh Pond is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
  - El Dorado County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Fresh Pond [El Dorado County].
- New York
  - Kings 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 New York community of Fresh Pond [Kings County].
  - Queens County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Fresh Pond [Queens County].
  - Suffolk County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New York community of Fresh Pond [Suffolk County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Fresh Pond ...

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

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Fresh Pond - Services available: had a Railroad Station, no Post Office mentioned

The FIPS database contains an entry for Fresh Pond.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 25/25275 (Place Name: Fresh Pond)

County: Middlesex (FIPS State/County: 25/017)

Class: U4

Identifies a populated place (ie- Fresh Pond) which is wholly or substantially located within the boundaries of an incorporated place with a different name. The Part of Code identifies the incorporated place.

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	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
College Hill	Roberts
Concord Junction	Rock Bottom

Dunstable Station	Salem Junction
	Sandy Pond
East Chelmsford	Saugus River Junction
East Everett	Shirley Compact
East Sudbury	Shirley Station
East Woburn	Shirley Village
Everett Junction	Somerville Highlands
	Somerville Junction
Fellsway	South Framingham
Fitchburg Crossing	South Reading
Framingham Centre	South Waltham
Framingham Junction	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 ...

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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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek 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 Fresh Pond 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.