Do you know of High Bridge ???

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

Our sources for High Bridge (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 High Bridge other than they indicate that High Bridge would be found somewhere in Hunterdon County, New Jersey.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1855.

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 High Bridge ...

We found eleven communities that share the name High Bridge.

Within New Jersey, the name High Bridge is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Idaho
  - Bingham 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 Idaho community of High Bridge [Bingham County].
- Iowa
  - Dallas 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 High Bridge [Dallas County].
- Kansas
  - Atchison 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 High Bridge [Atchison County].
- Kentucky
  - Jessamine County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of High Bridge [Jessamine County].
- Maryland
  - Prince George's 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 Maryland community of High Bridge [Prince George's County].
- New Hampshire
  - Hillsborough County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of High Bridge [Hillsborough County].
- New York
  - Bronx County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of High Bridge [Bronx County].
  - New York 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 York community of High Bridge [New York County].
  - Onondaga County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of High Bridge [Onondaga County].
- Texas
  - Val Verde County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of High Bridge [Val Verde County].
- Wisconsin
  - Ashland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of High Bridge [Ashland County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for High Bridge ...

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

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 High Bridge - 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

North American Railroad Atlas - Northeast
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by RailfanDepot, 2020
(Available from Amazon.com)

Shell Oil Road Map for New Jersey (1956)
Published by Shell Oil Company

More Orphans in Hunterdon 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 Hunterdon County.

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 High Bridge 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/