Miscellaneous References and Mentions

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

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

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

Rand McNally Map of Pennsylvania (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

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

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for Gastown. See our Misc Page for Gastown for more information.