Do you know of East Fairfield ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about East Fairfield. 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 East Fairfield.<1>
Our sources for East Fairfield (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 East Fairfield other than they indicate that East Fairfield would be found somewhere in Somerset County, Maine.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1838 and closed in 1904.
Communities Also Named East Fairfield ...
We found two communities that share the name East Fairfield.
Within Maine, the name East Fairfield is unique.
Beyond Maine, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Ohio
- Columbiana County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of East Fairfield [Columbiana County].
- Vermont
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of East Fairfield [Franklin County].
- Ohio
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for East Fairfield ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about East Fairfield:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for East Fairfield - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Somerset 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 Somerset County.
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> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |