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Do you know of South Canton ???

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

We found mention of South Canton as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Saint Lawrence 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.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1838 and closed  in 1849.

Communities Also Named South Canton ...

We found one communities that share the name South Canton.

Within New York, the name South Canton is unique.

Beyond New York, there is another community also named South Canton in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Georgia
      • Cherokee County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of South Canton [Cherokee County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for South Canton ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

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

More Orphans in  Saint Lawrence 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 Saint Lawrence County.

Allens FallsMasena Center
 Massawepie
BoiceMatildaville
Brasher Falls - WinthropMcEwens Corners
BrasherMinklers Corners
Browns Bridge 
 Norfolk Center
CaledoniaNorth Corners
Chamberlain CornersNorth Potsdam
Clarksboro' 
CranberryOld De Kalb
 Osborneville
East PierpontOsbornville
EastvilleOswegatchie Station
EdentonOwens Corners
Ellsworth 
 Pierces Corner
HarewoodPotsdam Junction
Hatch's Corner 
HatfieldRacket River
HickoryRichville Station
HomesteadRutherville
  
KeenevilleSellecks Corners
KnappShermerhorn Landing
KokomoShingle Creek
 Sissonville
Langdon CornersStockholm
Lawrence 
Lisbon CenterWadhams Park
Lisbon StationWashburnville
Louisville LandingWeston's
 Whitney's
MacombWick

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>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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