Do you know of Bald Mount ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Bald Mount. 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 Bald Mount.<1>
Our sources for Bald Mount (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 Bald Mount other than they indicate that Bald Mount would be found somewhere in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1835 and closed in 1916.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Bald Mount ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Bald Mount:
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 Bald Mount - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
More Orphans in Lackawanna County ...
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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 Lackawanna County.
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/ |