Do you know of Greenbush ???

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

Our sources for Greenbush (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 Greenbush other than they indicate that Greenbush would be found somewhere in Rensselaer County, New York.

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 Greenbush ...

We found seventeen communities that share the name Greenbush.

There is one other community in New York which is also named Greenbush.

Beyond New York, we know of another sixteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these sixteen communities, fifteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

Communities Located In New York ...
- Schoharie County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Greenbush [Schoharie County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Georgia
  - Walker County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Greenbush [Walker County].
- Illinois
  - Warren County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Greenbush [Warren County].
- Iowa
  - Warren County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Greenbush [Warren County].
- Kansas
  - Crawford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Greenbush [Crawford County].
  - Leavenworth County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Greenbush [Leavenworth County].
- Maine
  - Penobscot County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Greenbush [Penobscot County].
- Massachusetts
  - Plymouth County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Greenbush [Plymouth County].
- Michigan
  - Alcona County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Greenbush [Alcona County].
- Minnesota
  - Roseau County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Greenbush [Roseau County].
- Ohio
  - Brown County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Greenbush [Brown County].
  - Preble County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Greenbush [Preble County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Greenbush.
- Saskatchewan
  - Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Greenbush.
- Vermont
  - Windsor County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Greenbush [Windsor County].
- Virginia
  - Accomack County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Greenbush [Accomack County].
- Wisconsin
  - Sheboygan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Greenbush [Sheboygan County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Greenbush ...

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

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

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

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

Rand McNally Map of New York (1897)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in Rensselaer 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 Rensselaer County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Greenbush 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.