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Do you know of East Lexington ???

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

We found mention of East Lexington as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Greene 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.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1832 and closed  in 1850.

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 Lexington ...

We found two communities that share the name East Lexington.

Within New York, the name East Lexington is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Massachusetts
      • Middlesex County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of East Lexington [Middlesex County].
    • Virginia
      • Rockbridge County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of East Lexington [Rockbridge County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for East Lexington ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

More Orphans in  Greene 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 Greene County.

Beaches CornerLeeds - Elting Park
Big HollowLoonenburg
Bushnellsville 
 Mountain House Station
Catskill Landing 
Catskill VillageNew Baltimore Station
Chichesters 
 Prentiss
East Kill 
EmbogchtRedfalls
  
Great FallsSmith's Landing
 Stanton Hill
Haines' CornersStony Clove
  
JeffersonUrlton
  
KaaterskillWest Catskill
 West Shore Station
Laurel House StationWindham - Hensonville

Footnotes ...

<1>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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