Do you know of Gilpen ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Gilpen. 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 Gilpen.<1>
Our sources for Gilpen (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 Gilpen other than they indicate that Gilpen would be found somewhere in Allegany County, Maryland.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1893 and closed in 1919.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Gilpen ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Gilpen:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
North American Railroad Atlas - Northeast
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by RailfanDepot, 2020
(Available from Amazon.com)
Rand McNally Map of Maryland (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
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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 Allegany County.
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> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |