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Do you know of Winslow Mills ???

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

We found mention of Winslow Mills as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Hancock 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 1843 and closed  in 1847.

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 Winslow Mills ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Hancock 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 Hancock County.

Bar Harbor CenterLong Island
Boggy Brook 
Bucksport CompactMeddo
Bunkers HarborMount Desert Ferry
  
Cedar GroveNorth Blue Hill
CenterNorth Booksville
Chipman'sNorth Hancock
 North Lemoine
Eagle Island 
East DedhamOak Point
Edington 
 Reed's Pond
The Falls 
 Salisbury Cove
Gotts IslandSomersville
GraniteSound
Green's LandingSutton Island
Grindstone Neck 
 Tilden
Hinks Landing 
 West Broklin
Isle Au HautWest Eden
IslefordWest Hancock
 Winterport Ferry
Lake HouseWonsqueak Harbor

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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