Do you know of Harwood ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Harwood, so we are uncertain whether Harwood is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Harwood would be found 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.

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 Harwood ...

We found fifteen communities that share the name Harwood.

Within Massachusetts, the name Harwood is unique.

Beyond Massachusetts, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fifteen communities, fourteen are located in the United States and three are in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Chicot County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Harwood [Chicot County].
- Florida
  - Volusia 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 Florida community of Harwood [Volusia County].
- Illinois
  - Champaign 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 Illinois community of Harwood [Champaign County].
- Indiana
  - Vanderburgh County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Harwood [Vanderburgh County].
- Kansas
  - Haskell 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 Harwood [Haskell County].
  - Seward 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 Kansas community of Harwood [Seward County].
- Maryland
  - Anne Arundel County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Harwood [Anne Arundel County].
- Missouri
  - Vernon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Harwood [Vernon County].
- North Dakota
  - Cass County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Harwood [Cass County].
- Ohio
  - Highland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Harwood [Highland County].
  - Morrow 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 Harwood [Morrow County].
- Ontario
  - 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 Ontario community of Harwood.
- Pennsylvania
  - Luzerne County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Harwood [Luzerne County].
- Texas
  - Gonzales County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Harwood [Gonzales County].
- Washington
  - Yakima County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Harwood [Yakima County].

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
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
Fresh Pond	Stony Brook
	Sudbury Center
Golden Cove
Groton Center	Tewksbury Center
Groton Junction	Townsend Center
	Turnpike
Harvard Square
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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Harwood 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.