Do you know of Drawbridge ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Drawbridge. 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 Drawbridge.

Our sources for Drawbridge (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 Drawbridge other than they indicate that Drawbridge would be found somewhere in Dorchester County, Maryland.

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 Drawbridge ...

We found four communities that share the name Drawbridge.

Within Maryland, the name Drawbridge is unique.

Beyond Maryland, we know of another four communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
  - Alameda County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Drawbridge [Alameda County].
- Delaware
  - Sussex County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Drawbridge [Sussex County].
- Minnesota
  - Scott County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Drawbridge [Scott County].
- New Jersey
  - Atlantic County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Drawbridge [Atlantic County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Drawbridge ...

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

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

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

Maryland: Official Transportation Map (2003)
Published by the State Highway Administration

More Orphans in Dorchester 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 Dorchester County.

Aireys
	Old Field
Barren Creek
Big Mills	Parsons Creek

Cabin Creek	Sharpton
Cedar Grove Beach	Shiloh
	Sugarloaf
Elwood
Ennall's Station	Tobacco Stick

Harrison	Wingates Point

Footnotes ...

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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 Drawbridge 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.