Do you know of Ridge Hill ???

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

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

Communities Also Named Ridge Hill ...

We found one communities that share the name Ridge Hill.

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

Beyond Massachusetts.

Communities Located In Massachusetts ...
- Plymouth County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Ridge Hill [Plymouth County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ridge Hill ...

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

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

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

George#&160;F. Cram Map of Massachusetts (1901)
Published by George F. Cram& Co.

More Orphans in Norfolk 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 Norfolk County.

Bald Hill	Millis - Clicquot
Bellingham Center	Morrills
Bellingham Junction
Brookline Hill	Nantasket
Brookline Junction	Nash
	North Weymouth Station
Canton Corner	North Wrentham
Chapel	Norwood Central
Charles River	Norwood Centre
Cottage Farm
Cumberland	Pilgrim Village
	Plainfield
Dedham Junction
Dover Center	Quincy Adams
Dry Pond
	Readville Station
East Medway	Readville
East Randolph	Rockdale
East Stoughton	Rust Craft

Farm Station	Sandy Beach
Findlen	South Dedham
Fore River	South Franklin
Fort Bellingham	South Milford Station
Foxboro Center	South Randolph
Franklin Center	South Wrentham
Franklin City	Stone Haven
	Strawberry Hill
Glen Echo	Surfside

Hancock Village	Tilton's
Hazelwood
Highlandville	Wadsworth Station
Holbrook Grove	Walnut Hill
Hyde Park	Walpole East
	Walpole Junction
Lake Crossing	Wellsley
Lake Hiawatha	West Dedham
Lake Pearl	West Needham
Longwood	Weymouth Centre
	Windsor Gardens
May Flower Park	Wollaston Heights
Medway Center	Wrentham Center

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.

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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 Ridge 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.