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Do you know of East Lebanon ???

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

Our sources for East Lebanon (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 East Lebanon other than they indicate that East Lebanon would be found somewhere in Grafton County, New Hampshire.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1828 and closed  in 1909.

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 East Lebanon ...

We found two communities that share the name East Lebanon.

Within New Hampshire, the name East Lebanon is unique.

Beyond New Hampshire, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Maine
      • York County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of East Lebanon [York County].
    • Oregon
      • Linn 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 Oregon community of East Lebanon [Linn County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for East Lebanon ...

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

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 East Lebanon - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

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

The FIPS database contains an entry for East Lebanon.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 33/21460   (Place Name: East Lebanon)

County: Grafton     (FIPS State/County: 33/009)

Class: X3

More Orphans in  Grafton 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 Grafton County.

Ashland CompactLivermore Falls
  
Bethlehem JunctionNorth Holderness
BlackmountNorth Lisbon
Bridgewater StationNorth Monroe
Bristol Compact 
 Partridge Lake
Campton VillagePattenville
ComptonPike Station
 Plymouth Compact
Deer ParkProfile House
  
East LandaffRumney Station
East Lyman 
Enfield CompactSanborn's
 South Littleton
Flume HouseStewarts
FlumeSummit
  
Hanover CompactThompson's Falls
Hartford 
HartlandWarren Summit
 Waterville
JohnsonWestboro
 Whitcherville
Libbey'sWillowdale
Lisbon CompactWing Road
Littleton Compact 

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 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 East Lebanon 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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