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Do you know of Harlem River ???

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

We found mention of Harlem River as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in New York 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.

Communities Also Named Harlem River ...

We found one communities that share the name Harlem River.

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

Beyond New York.

  • Communities Located In New York ...
    • Bronx 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 New York community of Harlem River [Bronx County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Harlem River ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in  New York 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 New York County.

AnsoniaLincolnton
AudubonLondon Terrace
  
BaruchMadison Square
Bowling GreenMarble Hill
BryantMelrose
 Morgan
CarverMorningside
CathedralMorris Heights
CherokeeMorrisania
Claremont ParkMosholu
Colonial ParkMott Haven Junction
CooperMott Haven
  
Drew - HamiltonOld Chelsa
  
FordhamPatchin
Forham HeightsPeck Slip
Fort GeorgePeter Stuyvesant
Fort WashingtonPitt
 Port Morris
Governors IslandPrince
Gracie 
Greeley SquareRoosevelt Island
  
Hamilton GrangeSouth Pole
Hell GateSouth Yonkers
High BridgeSpuyten Duyvil
Howard 
Hunt's PointTimes Square
 Tompkins Square
IslandTremont
 Triborough
Kingsbridge 
KnickerbockerVladeck
  
Lenox HillWards Island
Lillian WaldWest Village

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Harlem River 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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