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Do you know of Vailsburg ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Vailsburg. 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 Vailsburg.<1>

Our sources for Vailsburg (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Vailsburg other than they indicate that Vailsburg would be found somewhere in Essex County, New Jersey.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Vailsburg ...

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

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

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

George#&160;F. Cram Map of New Jersey (1905)
Published by George F. Cram& Co.

The FIPS database contains an entry for Vailsburg.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 34/75290   (Place Name: Vailsburg)

County: Essex     (FIPS State/County: 34/013)

Class: U4

Identifies a populated place (ie- Vailsburg) which is wholly or substantially located within the boundaries of an incorporated place with a different name. The Part of Code identifies the incorporated place.

More Orphans in  Essex 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 Essex County.

AcademyMountain Station
Acouackanonck 
AlexandriaNew Barbadoes
 North Caldwell
Belwood ParkNorth Center
Boiling SpringsNorth Newark
Brills JunctionNorth
Brills 
 Orange Valley
CamptownOrvil
CentralOverbrook
Chestnut Hill 
Clinton HillParkview
  
DoddtownRiverside
 Roseland
Essex 
 Silver Lake
Forest HillSoho
 South Livingston
Glen RidgeSouth Orange Village
Great NotchSouth
Grove 
 Washington Park
HiltonWatchung
 Watsessing
IronboundWaverly Park
 Waverly
KearneyWeequahic
 West Bloomfield
Manhattan ParkWest Newark
MaplecrestWest
MidlandWoodside

Footnotes ...

<1>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.









 

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