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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.

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.

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 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].

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.<1>

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 ...

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.

AlderbrookMaxfield
AskwithMayfield
Austin JunctionMisery
 Moosehead
Big Squaw Mountain 
Bingham CenterNorridgewock Center
BlackwellNorth Cornville
Bowton 
BowtownOosoola
 Otis Hill
Carritunk 
Chase StreamPalmyra Station
ConcordParlin Pond
Costons CornerPenobscot Lake Town
 Pierce Pond
Dead River PlantationPishon's
Dead RiverPittsfield Center
Detroit StationPittston Farm
Dole BrookPleasant Ridge
  
East AthensRevere
East Pittsfield 
Embden CentreSandbar Tract
 Sandwich
Fairfield CompactSandy Bay
Five CornersSapling
 Sawtelle Crossing
Good Will FarmSkowhegan Center
 South Anson
HalfwaySouth Norridgewock
 South Smithfield
Indian StreamSquaretown
  
Jackman StationTaunton & Raynham Academy Grant
JackmantownTomhegan
Jerusalem 
 Upper Enchanted
Kibby 
 West Madison
Lower EnchantedWest Pittsfield
 West Ripley
Madison Center 

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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