Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Manhattan came from various goverment sources (GNIS), we also found mention of Manhattan in various books and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Manhattan. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our Manhattan data came from. The following list of references and mentions is incomplete.

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

Manhattan is contained in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

The GNIS database contains an entry for Manhattan. See our Misc Page for Manhattan for more information.