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Do you know of Dead River ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Dead River. 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 Dead River.<1> Our sources for Dead River (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 Dead River other than they indicate that Dead River would be found somewhere in Somerset County, Maine. From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1833 and closed in 1942. Communities Also Named Dead River ...We found two communities that share the name Dead River. There is one other community in Maine which is also named Dead River. Beyond Maine, there is another community also named Dead River in the United States.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Dead River ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Dead River: Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3> Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Dead River - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Rand McNally Map of Maine (1897)
More Orphans in Somerset 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 Somerset County. Footnotes ...
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