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Do you know of Brockway's Mills ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Brockway's Mills. 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 Brockway's Mills.

Our sources for Brockway's Mills (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 Brockway's Mills other than they indicate that Brockway's Mills would be found somewhere in Piscataquis County, Maine.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1863 and closed  in 1903.

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 Brockway's Mills ...

We found one communities that share the name Brockway's Mills.

Within Maine, the name Brockway's Mills is unique.

Beyond Maine, there is another community also named Brockway's Mills in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Vermont
      • Windham County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Brockway's Mills [Windham County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Brockway's Mills ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

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

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

Rand McNally Map of Maine (1897)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Piscataquis 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 Piscataquis County.

Abbot VillageKatahdin Iron Works
Atkinson CornerKineo
  
Blanchard PlantationLobster
BurbankLow's Bridge
Burdin 
 Maple
Capen'sMilo Center
 Milo Junction
Day's Crossing 
DeansNorth Brownville
DoverNorton
 Norton's Corners
East Middlesex 
ElliottOrneville Station
Elliottsville PlantationOrneville
  
FoxcroftRainbow Town
 Rand Cove
GilmanRoach River
Greeley Landing 
Greenville CenterSebec Station
Guilford CompactSouth Atkinsons
 Spencer Bay
Hardy PondSquaw Brook
Hartfords PointSummit
Henderson 
HowardWilliamantic
  

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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