Do you know of Montague ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Montague. 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 Montague.
Our sources for Montague (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 Montague other than they indicate that Montague would be found somewhere in Penobscot County, Maine.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1888 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 Montague ...
We found 21 communities that share the name Montague.
Within Maine, the name Montague is unique.
Beyond Maine, we know of another 21 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 21 communities, nineteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Montague [Jackson County].
- California
- Siskiyou County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Montague [Siskiyou County].
- Florida
- Marion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Montague [Marion County].
- Kansas
- Massachusetts
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Montague [Franklin County].
- Michigan
- Muskegon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Montague [Muskegon County].
- Missouri
- Christian County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Montague [Christian County].
- Montana
- Chouteau County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Montague [Chouteau County].
- New Jersey
- Sussex County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Montague [Sussex County].
- New York
- North Carolina
- Pender County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Montague [Pender County].
- Oregon
- Gilliam County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Montague [Gilliam County].
- Prince Edward Island
- Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Montague.
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Montague County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Montague [Montague County].
- Virginia
- Yukon
- Please visit our profile page for the Yukon community of Montague.
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Montague ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Montague:
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 Montague - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of Maine (1897)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Penobscot 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 Penobscot County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Montague could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |