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Do you know of North Sandwich ???

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

We found mention of North Sandwich as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Barnstable 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 1837 and closed  in 1884.

Communities Also Named North Sandwich ...

We found one communities that share the name North Sandwich.

Within Massachusetts, the name North Sandwich is unique.

Beyond Massachusetts, there is another community also named North Sandwich in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • New Hampshire
      • Carroll County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of North Sandwich [Carroll County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for North Sandwich ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Barnstable 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 Barnstable County.

Barnstable CenterNorth Brewster
Bourne CenterNorthwest Harwich
Brewster Station 
 Provincetown Center
CentrevilleProvincetown Wharf
Chatham Center 
CotiutQuinsett
Cotuit Port 
 Sandwich Center
East YarmouthSilver Spring Beach
 South Hyannis
Falmouth CenterSouth Sandwich
First EncounterSouth Yarmouth Station
 Spring Hill
Harwich Center 
HyannisportTobeys Island
  
Lakewood HillsWenaumet
 West Sandwich
Mashnee IslandWimbledon
Mashpee Center 
MonumentYarmouth Farms
  

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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