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Do you know of Sligo ???

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

We found mention of Sligo as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Cumberland County, Maine.

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.

Communities Also Named Sligo ...

We found fourteen communities that share the name Sligo.

Within Maine, the name Sligo is unique.

Beyond Maine, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fourteen communities, thirteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Colorado
      • Weld County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Sligo [Weld County].
    • Kentucky
      • Henry County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Sligo [Henry County].
    • Louisiana
      • Bossier Parish
      • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Sligo [Bossier Parish].
    • Maryland
      • Montgomery County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Sligo [Montgomery County].
    • Missouri
      • Crawford County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Sligo [Crawford County].
      • Dent County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Sligo [Dent County].
    • North Carolina
      • Currituck County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Sligo [Currituck County].
    • Ohio
      • Clinton County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Sligo [Clinton County].
      • Guernsey County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Sligo [Guernsey County].
    • Ontario
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Sligo.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Allegheny County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Sligo [Allegheny County].
      • Clarion County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Sligo [Clarion County].
    • Tennessee
      • DeKalb County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Sligo [DeKalb County].
    • Texas
      • Yoakum County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Sligo [Yoakum County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Sligo ...

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Sligo - Services available: had a Railroad Station, no Post Office mentioned

More Orphans in  Cumberland 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 Cumberland County.

Birch IslandLittle Diamond Island
Black PointLittle Falls - South Windham
BlakesLygonia
Bowery Beach 
Bridgton CompactMackworth Point
Broad CoveMallison Falls
Brunswick CenterMattocks
Brunswick StationMayberry Hill
Buggy Meetinghouse 
 Oceanview Harbor
Cape Cottage WoodsOlde Mill Brook
Chadbourne's 
Chase'sPeabbles Cove
Clapboard IslandPejepscot
Cooks MillsPenny's
CornishPlummer Island
Crescent BeachPumpkin Valley
Cumberland Junction 
 Redbank Village
Deering CentreThe Ridge
Duck Pond Corner 
Duck PondSabbathday Lake
DunstanSaccarappa
 Scarborough Beach
East BaldwinScarborough Crossing
East North YarmouthSmiths Mills
East WindhamSouth Portland Heights
EvergreenSouth Standish
 Stickey River
Forest City Landing 
Fort WilliamsThompsons Point
Freeport CenterTown Farm Hill
 Two Lights
Gorham Center 
Great Diamond IslandUnion Station
  
HigginsWardtown
Highland Lake VistaWebb Mills
Hunnewell HillWest Gloucester
 Westbrook Junction
Ingall's HillWildwood Park
 Willard
Kings Grant 
 Yarmouth Center
The LedgesYarmouthville

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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek 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 Sligo 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.









 

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