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Do you know of New Town ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of New Town, so we are uncertain whether New Town is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that New Town would be found somewhere in Wicomico County, Maryland.

Communities Also Named New Town ...

We found 24 communities that share the name New Town.

Within Maryland, the name New Town is unique.

Beyond Maryland, we know of another 24 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 24 communities, 23 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Jackson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of New Town [Jackson County].
      • Jefferson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of New Town [Jefferson County].
      • Montgomery County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of New Town [Montgomery County].
    • Arkansas
      • Carroll County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of New Town [Carroll County].
      • Crawford County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of New Town [Crawford County].
    • Georgia
      • Gordon County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of New Town [Gordon County].
      • Wilkes County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of New Town [Wilkes County].
    • Kansas
      • Coffey County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of New Town [Coffey County].
    • Massachusetts
      • Middlesex County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of New Town [Middlesex County].
    • Mississippi
      • Sunflower County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of New Town [Sunflower County].
      • Tate County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of New Town [Tate County].
    • New Jersey
      • Mercer County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of New Town [Mercer County].
    • North Carolina
      • Richmond County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of New Town [Richmond County].
      • Scotland County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of New Town [Scotland County].
    • North Dakota
      • Mountrail County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of New Town [Mountrail County].
    • Nova Scotia
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of New Town.
    • Ohio
      • Guernsey County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of New Town [Guernsey County].
      • Hocking County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of New Town [Hocking County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Centre County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of New Town [Centre County].
    • Tennessee
      • Hardin County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of New Town [Hardin County].
      • Marshall County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of New Town [Marshall County].
      • Maury County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of New Town [Maury County].
    • Virginia
      • Norfolk City
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of New Town [Norfolk City].
      • Radford City
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of New Town [Radford City].

More Orphans in  Wicomico 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 Wicomico County.

AllenwoodParsons
 Pittsburg
Barren Creek Springs 
 Rock-a-Walking
CherrywalkRockawalking
  
Deers HeadSouth Salisbury
 Spring Hill
GlendaleSunyar
  
Head of the CreekTonytank
  
Merritt HeightsValleywood
  
NuttersWanamaker
 Williams

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>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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 New Town 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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