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Do you know of South Abington Station ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about South Abington Station. 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 South Abington Station.

Our sources for South Abington Station (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of South Abington Station other than they indicate that South Abington Station would be found somewhere in Plymouth County, Massachusetts.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1878 and closed  in 1898.

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.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for South Abington Station ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

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

More Orphans in  Plymouth 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 Plymouth County.

Agawam BeachNorth Abbington
Antassawamock BeachNorth Middleborough Station
  
Bridgewater CenterOakdale Village
Brown'sOcean Bluff - Brant Rock
 outh Duxbury
Center 
Central MarshfieldPembroke Center
 Pembroke Heights
DarbyPembroke Pines
Duxbury CenterPierceville
Duxbury StationPlymouth Center
 Plympton Station
East MarshfieldPoint Allerton
East Mattapoisett 
East MiddleboroRidge Hill
East Whitman 
 Sand Hill
Furnace Pond ColonySandhills
 Sea Side
Halifax StationSnug Harbor
Hanleys CornerSouth Abington
HollywoodSouth Lakeville
 South Plymouth
Indian Mound BeachSouth Scituate
IrvingstonState Farm
 Stoney Beach
Kingston CenterSurfside
  
Lakeville CenterTurnpike
Little Harbor Beach 
Long Pond VillageWarren Terrace
 Webster Place
Marion CenterWeir River
Marion StationWest Bridgewater Center
Marshfield CompactWest Scituate
Mattapoisett CenterWest Wind Shores
Middleborough CenterWhitehead
Mount BlueWindmere
 Winslow Crossing
Nobska Beach 

Footnotes ...

<1>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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