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Do you know of Braceville ???

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

We found mention of Braceville as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Forest County, Pennsylvania.

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 1881 and closed  in 1882.

Communities Also Named Braceville ...

We found two communities that share the name Braceville.

Within Pennsylvania, the name Braceville is unique.

Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Illinois
      • Grundy County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Braceville [Grundy County].
    • Ohio
      • Trumbull County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Braceville [Trumbull County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Braceville ...

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

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

More Orphans in  Forest 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 Forest County.

Auguston 
 Maple Creek
Bowman'sMarionville
 Miller's
Cooper Tract 
 Newtown Mills
Dawson 
DuhringPanther Rock
 Pebble Dell
ElulailiaPerry
  
FrostsRoss Run
  
HickoryThompson
  
James MillWatson Farm
 Watson
LamonaWolf Run

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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