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Do you know of Grant Isle ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Grant Isle. 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 Grant Isle.

Our sources for Grant Isle (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 Grant Isle other than they indicate that Grant Isle would be found somewhere in Aroostook County, Maine.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1859 and closed  in 1907.

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.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Grant Isle ...

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

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 Grant Isle - 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  Aroostook 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 Aroostook County.

Acadia TerraceMaines
AlbertMaloy
Aroostook FarmMansur's Mills
AxelMartin
 Maynard
Bancroft StationMaysville Center
BelvedereMichaud
Ben ThomasMidway
Blaine CenterMoody
BlierMorrow Road
BrannenMurphy Road
Bridgewater CentreMurray
  
Caribou RoadNashville
CherokeeNorth Lake
CollinsNorth Perham
ConnorNorth Yarmouth Academy Grant
ConwayNowland
Coral 
CottageParks
CyrPatten June
 Pelletier
DaggettPerry
Davenport CovePowers Gore
DeeringPowers
Dow 
DumaisRealty
 Reed Farms
East CaribouRista
East RoadRiverview
East WashburnRobbins
ElmoRobie
EnglishRobinsons
 Roxie
Folkstown 
ForsytheSaint Croix
Fort Fairfield CenterSaint Luce
Fort Kent CenterSaunders
FosterScates
 Scott
GarfieldShaw
GilmanSouth Moluncus
Glenn - DaleSouth Presque Isle
Golden RidgeStebbins
GoodingsStimson
GreenlawSutton
Guiou 
 Titcomb
HayTrafton
Houlton CenterTreffle
  
IndustrialUmcolcus
 Upper Madawaska
JacobsUpper Molunkus
  
LedgesValley
Limestone CenterVan Buren Center
LoganViolette
Loring Air Force Base 
LoringWade Road
Lower Grant IsleWashburn Center
LyndonWatson
 Webertown
Madawaska CenterWilliams
Madawaska LakeWrightville

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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