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Do you know of Albin ???

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

Our sources for Albin (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 Albin other than they indicate that Albin would be found somewhere in Brown County, Minnesota.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1890 and closed  in 1896.

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 Albin ...

We found three communities that share the name Albin.

Within Minnesota, the name Albin is unique.

Beyond Minnesota, we know of another three communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Mississippi
      • Tallahatchie County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Albin [Tallahatchie County].
    • Virginia
      • Frederick County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Albin [Frederick County].
    • Wyoming
      • Laramie County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Albin [Laramie County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Albin ...

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

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Brown 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 Brown County.

Golden GateMilford Station
 Milford
Home 
 Redwood Junction
Lonetree Lake 
 Stately

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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