Do you know of Conway ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Conway. 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 Conway.
We found mention of Conway as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Aroostook County, Maine.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1839 and closed in 1873.
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 Conway ...
We found 27 communities that share the name Conway.
Within Maine, the name Conway is unique.
Beyond Maine, we know of another 27 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 27 communities, 24 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Faulkner County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Conway [Faulkner County].
- Florida
- Orange County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Conway [Orange County].
- Iowa
- Taylor County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Conway [Taylor County].
- Kansas
- Anderson 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 Kansas community of Conway [Anderson County].
- Linn County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Conway [Linn County].
- McPherson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Conway [McPherson County].
- Kentucky
- Rockcastle County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Conway [Rockcastle County].
- Louisiana
- Union Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Conway [Union Parish].
- Massachusetts
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Conway [Franklin County].
- Michigan
- Emmet County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Conway [Emmet County].
- Mississippi
- Hinds 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 Mississippi community of Conway [Hinds County].
- Leake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Conway [Leake County].
- Missouri
- Laclede County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Conway [Laclede County].
- Montana
- New Hampshire
- Carroll County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Conway [Carroll County].
- North Carolina
- Northampton County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Conway [Northampton County].
- North Dakota
- Walsh County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Conway [Walsh County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Conway.
- Ohio
- Harrison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Conway [Harrison County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Conway.
- Pennsylvania
- Beaver County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Conway [Beaver County].
- Prince Edward Island
- Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Conway.
- South Carolina
- Horry County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Conway [Horry County].
- Tennessee
- Giles County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Conway [Giles County].
- Texas
- Carson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Conway [Carson County].
- Washington
- Skagit County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Conway [Skagit County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Conway ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Conway:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers
More Orphans in Aroostook 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 Aroostook County.
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 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 Conway 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |