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Do you know of Waverly Park ???

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

Our sources for Waverly Park (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 Waverly Park other than they indicate that Waverly Park would be found somewhere in Essex County, New Jersey.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1887 and closed  in 1904.

Communities Also Named Waverly Park ...

We found three communities that share the name Waverly Park.

Within New Jersey, the name Waverly Park is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • California
      • Santa Clara County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Waverly Park [Santa Clara County].
      • Ventura County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the California community of Waverly Park [Ventura County].
    • Georgia
      • Catoosa County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Waverly Park [Catoosa County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Waverly Park ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

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

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

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

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.

Academy 
AcouackanonckNew Barbadoes
AlexandriaNorth Caldwell
 North Center
Belwood ParkNorth Newark
Boiling SpringsNorth
Brills Junction 
BrillsOrange Valley
 Orvil
CamptownOverbrook
Central 
Chestnut HillParkview
Clinton Hill 
 Riverside
DoddtownRoseland
  
EssexSilver Lake
 Soho
Forest HillSouth Livingston
 South Orange Village
Glen RidgeSouth
Great Notch 
GroveVailsburg
  
HiltonWashington Park
 Watchung
IronboundWatsessing
 Waverly
KearneyWeequahic
 West Bloomfield
Manhattan ParkWest Newark
MaplecrestWest
MidlandWoodside
Mountain Station 

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.
<2>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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Waverly Park 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.
<3>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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