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Do you know of Edwards Park ???

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

Our sources wasn't clear whether Edwards Park was a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that Edwards Park would be found somewhere in Columbia County, New York.

Communities Also Named Edwards Park ...

We found one communities that share the name Edwards Park.

Within New York, the name Edwards Park is unique.

Beyond New York, there is another community also named Edwards Park in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Wisconsin
      • Dane County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Edwards Park [Dane County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Edwards Park ...

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

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

New York Central Railroad Time Table (April 1950)
Published by New York Central Railroad

The FIPS database contains an entry for Edwards Park.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 36/23668   (Place Name: Edwards Park)

County: Columbia     (FIPS State/County: 36/021)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Edwards Park) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Columbia 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 Columbia County.

Ancram Lead MinesHillside
 Hudson Upper
Blue Stores 
 Jonesburgh
Canaan Four Corners 
Canaan StationMartindale Depot
Catskill StationMount Lebanon
Chatham Four Corners 
Chatham VillageNew Lebanon Springs
Claverack - Red MillsNorth Copake
Copake Iron Works 
Coxsackie StationSchodack Junction
 Smoky Hollow
EllerslieState Line
 Stockport Center
Gallatin 
Germantown StationTanner's
Greenport 
 Walshville
Halstead 

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>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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Edwards 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.









 

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