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Do you know of Lester ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1872 and closed  in 1901.

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 Lester ...

We found 23 communities that share the name Lester.

Within Minnesota, the name Lester is unique.

Beyond Minnesota, we know of another 23 communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Etowah County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Lester [Etowah County].
      • Limestone County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Lester [Limestone County].
    • Arkansas
      • Craighead County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Lester [Craighead County].
      • Ouachita County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Lester [Ouachita County].
    • Colorado
      • Huerfano County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Lester [Huerfano County].
    • Georgia
      • Fulton County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Lester [Fulton County].
      • Mitchell County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Lester [Mitchell County].
    • Illinois
      • Marion County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Lester [Marion County].
    • Indiana
      • 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 Indiana community of Lester [Greene County].
    • Iowa
      • Black Hawk 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 Iowa community of Lester [Black Hawk County].
      • Lyon County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Lester [Lyon County].
    • Kansas
      • Logan 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 Kansas community of Lester [Logan County].
      • Scott County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Lester [Scott County].
    • Michigan
      • Branch 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 Michigan community of Lester [Branch County].
    • Nebraska
      • Webster County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Lester [Webster County].
    • New York
      • Broome County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Lester [Broome County].
    • North Carolina
      • Wilkes County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Lester [Wilkes County].
    • Ohio
      • Medina County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Lester [Medina County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Delaware County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Lester [Delaware County].
    • South Carolina
      • Marlboro County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Lester [Marlboro County].
    • Utah
      • Davis County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Lester [Davis County].
    • Washington
      • King County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Lester [King County].
    • West Virginia
      • Raleigh County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Lester [Raleigh County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Lester ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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

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

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 
BridgewaterFowlersville
  
Cannon LakeRichland
  
DeanSheffield Mill
  
East PrairievilleWesely
ElklandWheeling
ErinWolcott

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 Lester 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/









 

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