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Do you know of Magalloway ???

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

We found mention of Magalloway as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Oxford 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 1891 and closed  in 1893.

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 Magalloway ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

More Orphans in  Oxford 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 Oxford County.

AlbanyLockes Mills
AllensLower Cupsuptic
Andover North SurplusLynchtown
Andover West Surplus 
 Mexico Center
Batchelders Grant 
BatesNorth Albany
BridgetonNorth Hill
Bridgton JunctionNorth Rumford
Brownfield StationNorway Compact
Burnt Meadow Ponp 
 Perley's Mills
C Surplus 
Camp CaribouRichardsontown
CupsupticRumford Compact
 Rumford Falls
Dixfield Compact 
 Sebago
East RumfordSnow's Falls
Ellis PondSouth Bethel
 South Hartford
Fryeburg Compact 
Fryeburg HarborUpper Cupsuptic
  
GraftonViking Village
  
HarborWalkers Mill
Hebron StationWest Buckfield
 West Lovell
IcepondWhitney Brook
 Worthley
Lake Anasagunticook 

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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