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Do you know of West Brookville ???

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

We found mention of West Brookville as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Sullivan 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 1828 and closed  in 1966.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for West Brookville ...

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

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

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Sullivan 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 Sullivan County.

Barnum's 
Beaver BrookKiamesha
Beech Wood 
 Lebanon Lake
Callicoon DepotLiberty Falls
Callicoon StationLochada Lake
Camp HemlockLumberland
Centerville Station 
CentrevilleMamakating
The CityMasten Lake
 Merriewold
Dahlia 
Delaware BridgeOakland
  
Emerald GreenPike Pond
EmmonsvillePurvis
  
Fallsburgh StationRobertsonville
FallsburghRoosa Gap
Fremont 
 Sacketts Lake
GalesShin Creek
Gilman's DepotSkinners Falls
GilmansStarlight
GrossingerStevensville
  
HighviewTennanah
Hunter Lake 
HurdWest Sulpher Springs

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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