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Do you know of Checkered House ???

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

We found mention of Checkered House as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Oswego County, New York.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1850 and closed  in 1850.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Checkered House ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Oswego County ...

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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 Oswego County.

AmboyMinetto Station
 Molino
Bennett Bridge 
BroadwayNew Centerville
BundysNew Haven Station
ButterflyNorth Fulton
 North Seriba
Cartersville 
CatfishOswego Falls
Cleaveland 
 Pennelly
East OswegoPleasant Point
East Sandy Creek 
 Roosevelt
Fraicheur 
Fulton StationSalmon River
 Sand Bank
Gilberts MillsSand Hill
 Sandy Creek Station
Holmesville StationSelkirk Beach
HowardsvilleSouth Albion
 South Richland
IngellsSouth Volney
  
JerryUnion Square
  
Kinney's Four CornersWest Granby
 West Mexico
LindseyvilleWest Williamstown
 Wheeler's Station
Mexico StationWrightson

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>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.
<3>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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