Do you know of Bridgetown ???

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

We found mention of Bridgetown as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Kent County, Maryland.

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 1802 and closed in 1805.

Communities Also Named Bridgetown ...

We found ten communities that share the name Bridgetown.

There is one other community in Maryland which is also named Bridgetown.

Beyond Maryland, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these nine communities, seven are located in the United States and three are in Canada.

Communities Located In Maryland ...
- Caroline County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Bridgetown [Caroline County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Georgia
  - Coffee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Bridgetown [Coffee County].
- Nova Scotia
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Bridgetown.
- Ohio
  - Hamilton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Bridgetown [Hamilton County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Bucks County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Bridgetown [Bucks County].
- Prince Edward Island
  - Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Bridgetown.
- Quebec
  - Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Bridgetown.
- Rhode Island
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Rhode Island community of Bridgetown [Washington County].
- Virginia
  - Lancaster County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Bridgetown [Lancaster County].
  - Northampton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Bridgetown [Northampton County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Bridgetown ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

U.S. Post Offices (1803)
Printed by order of the Post Master General

More Orphans in Kent 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 Kent County.

Black's	Lankford

Cedar Creek	Massey's Junction

Hall's Crossroads	Norwood Park
Harmony
Harris Lot	Reddings Corner
Head Of Sassafras
	Shorewood Gardens

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/