Do you know of Woodmere ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Woodmere. 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 Woodmere.
Our sources for Woodmere (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 Woodmere other than they indicate that Woodmere would be found somewhere in Wayne County, Michigan.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1884 and closed in 1906.
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 Woodmere ...
We found thirteen communities that share the name Woodmere.
Within Michigan, the name Woodmere is unique.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another thirteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these thirteen communities, twelve are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Woodmere.
- Florida
- Sarasota County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Woodmere [Sarasota County].
- Georgia
- Cobb County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Woodmere [Cobb County].
- Illinois
- Louisiana
- Jefferson Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Woodmere [Jefferson Parish].
- New Hampshire
- Cheshire County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Woodmere [Cheshire County].
- New Jersey
- New York
- Nassau County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Woodmere [Nassau County].
- Ohio
- Utah
- Davis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Woodmere [Davis County].
- Virginia
- Petersburg City
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Woodmere [Petersburg City].
- British Columbia
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Woodmere ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Woodmere:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Along The Tracks, A Directory of Named Places on Michigan Railroads
Written by: Meints, Graydon M.
Published by Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University - 1987
(Available from Amazon.com)
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Woodmere - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station
Michigan Central Railroad Time Tables (July 1912)
Published by Michigan Central Railroad
Michigan Central Railroad Time Tables (May 1892)
Published by Michigan Central Railway
Rand McNally Map of Michigan (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Wayne 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 Wayne 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 Woodmere 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/ |