Do you know of Bridgewater ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Bridgewater, so we are uncertain whether Bridgewater is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Bridgewater would be found somewhere in Rice County, Minnesota.

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 Bridgewater ...

We found 25 communities that share the name Bridgewater.

Within Minnesota, the name Bridgewater is unique.

Beyond Minnesota, we know of another 25 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 25 communities, 23 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Connecticut
  - Litchfield County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Bridgewater [Litchfield County].
- Georgia
  - Gwinnett County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Bridgewater [Gwinnett County].
- Illinois
  - Greene 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 Illinois community of Bridgewater [Greene County].
- Indiana
  - Hamilton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Bridgewater [Hamilton County].
- Iowa
  - Adair County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Bridgewater [Adair County].
- Maine
  - Aroostook County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Bridgewater [Aroostook County].
- Massachusetts
  - Plymouth County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Bridgewater [Plymouth County].
- Michigan
  - Washtenaw County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Bridgewater [Washtenaw County].
- Missouri
  - Nodaway County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Bridgewater [Nodaway County].
- New Hampshire
  - Grafton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Bridgewater [Grafton County].
- New Jersey
  - Somerset 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 New Jersey community of Bridgewater [Somerset County].
- New York
  - Oneida County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Bridgewater [Oneida County].
- North Carolina
  - Burke County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Bridgewater [Burke County].
- Nova Scotia
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Bridgewater.
- Ohio
  - Columbiana County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Bridgewater [Columbiana County].
  - Guernsey County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Bridgewater [Guernsey County].
  - Williams 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 Bridgewater [Williams County].
- Ontario
  - 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 Ontario community of Bridgewater.
- Pennsylvania
  - Beaver County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Bridgewater [Beaver County].
  - Bucks County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Bridgewater [Bucks County].
  - Delaware County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Bridgewater [Delaware County].
- South Carolina
  - Anderson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Bridgewater [Anderson County].
- South Dakota
  - McCook County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Bridgewater [McCook County].
- Vermont
  - Windsor County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Bridgewater [Windsor County].
- Virginia
  - Rockingham County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Bridgewater [Rockingham County].

More Orphans in Rice 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 Rice County.

Berg	Lester

Cannon Lake	Richland

Dean	Sheffield Mill

East Prairieville	Union Lakes
Elkland
Erin	Wesely
	Wheeling
Fowlersville	Wolcott

Footnotes ...

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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 Bridgewater 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.