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Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about West Gardiner came from various goverment sources (GNIS, US Census, FIPS), we also found mention of West Gardiner in various books, maps and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about West Gardiner. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our West Gardiner data came from. The following list of references and mentions is incomplete.

 

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for West Gardiner:
Services available in 1895: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

Rand McNally Map of Maine (1897)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

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

We found West Gardiner in these Censuses: 2010-1990. See our Census Page for West Gardiner for more information.

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for West Gardiner. See our Misc Page for West Gardiner for more information.

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/