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Do you know of West Brook ???

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

Our sources for West Brook (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 West Brook other than they indicate that West Brook would be found somewhere in Delaware County, New York.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1852 and closed  in 1914.

Communities Also Named West Brook ...

We found four communities that share the name West Brook.

Within New York, the name West Brook is unique.

Beyond New York, we know of another four communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these four communities, three are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Georgia
      • Pickens County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of West Brook [Pickens County].
    • Kentucky
      • Christian County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of West Brook [Christian County].
    • North Carolina
      • Cabarrus County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of West Brook [Cabarrus County].
    • Nova Scotia
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of West Brook.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for West Brook ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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

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

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

More Orphans in  Delaware 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 Delaware County.

Batavia KillMiddletown
Bovina ValleyMonument Island
BrushlandMoresville
  
CabinhillNorth Hamden
Cadosia ValleyNorth Walton
Carpenter's Eddy 
Colchester StationOuleout
Croton 
 Papakunk
Doonan CornersPartridge Island
 Pepacton
East Roxbury 
 Read's Creek
Grant's Mills 
Grifffin's CornersSherruck
 Sidney Plains
HalcottvilleSouth Franklin
Hales EddySouth Harpersfield
 Stockport Station
Kellys CornersStockport
Kerry's 
KortrightTrout Brook Station
 Trout Brook
Lumberville 
 Union Grove
Meredith Hollow 
MerricksvilleWoodford

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>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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