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This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Sixteen Acres. 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 Sixteen Acres.
Our sources for Sixteen Acres (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Sixteen Acres other than they indicate that Sixteen Acres would be found somewhere in Hampshire 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 Sixteen Acres ...
We found one communities that share the name Sixteen Acres.
There is one other community in Massachusetts which is also named Sixteen Acres.
Beyond Massachusetts.
- Communities Located In Massachusetts ...
- Hampden County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Sixteen Acres [Hampden County].
- Hampden County
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Sixteen Acres ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Sixteen Acres:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Sixteen Acres - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Hampshire 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 Hampshire County.