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Do you know of Matthewstown ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Matthewstown, so we are uncertain whether Matthewstown is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Matthewstown would be found somewhere in Anne Arundel 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 Matthewstown ...

We found one communities that share the name Matthewstown.

Within Maryland, the name Matthewstown is unique.

Beyond Maryland, there is another community also named Matthewstown in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • North Carolina
      • Forsyth 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 North Carolina community of Matthewstown [Forsyth County].

More Orphans in  Anne Arundel 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 Anne Arundel County.

Alpine BeachJoyce Lane
Arundel Plaza 
AsburyLeitchs
Azundel GardensLower Magothy Beach
 Lyons Creek
Bayard 
Bellhaven BeachMago Vista
Black Bay BeachMagothy Park Beach
BooneMaynard
Bright Seat 
Brooklyn - Curtis BayNaval Academy
BrooklynNorth Wellham
Brotherton 
 Obligation
Camp ParoleOdenton Gardens
Capt Saint ClaireOrdnance
Cedar ParkOwensville
Cedar RidgeOwingsville
Cedarhurst-on-the-Bay 
Cox CreekRiverview
Crisps 
 Saunders Range
Deep CreekScrabbletown
 Sewell
East GardenSledds Point
 South Baltimore
Fort Meade JunctionSouth River Park
Fort MeadeStahl Point
 Stone House Cove
Galloway'sStoney Run
  
HanoverTanyard Point
Harman 
Heritage HarborWateroak Point
Highview on the BayWelhams
 Wild Rose Shores
Inglehart'sWoodwardville
  

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Matthewstown 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.









 

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