Do you know of Shelving Rock ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Shelving Rock. 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 Shelving Rock.<1> Our sources for Shelving Rock (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 Shelving Rock other than they indicate that Shelving Rock would be found somewhere in Washington County, New York. From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1878 and closed in 1918. Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Shelving Rock ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Shelving Rock: Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2> Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Shelving Rock - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned Rand McNally Map of New York (1897)
More Orphans in Washington 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 Washington County. Footnotes ...
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