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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of John Wanamaker, so we are uncertain whether John Wanamaker is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that John Wanamaker would be found somewhere in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

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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 Philadelphia County.

AndoraMarket Square
 Melrose
BellevueMiddle City
BellmontMidvale
BonnafonMount Moriah
Bustletown 
 Norris
CastorNorth Philadelphia
Chesnut HillNortheast Village
Commerce 
ContinentalOxford Station
Cynwyd 
 Park Junction
East GermantownParshall
East SidePiersons
Engelside 
EnglesideRichmond Junction
 Rising Sun
Fairhill JunctionRock Ledge
FairhillRosehill
FallsRowlands
Fidelity 
Forest HillsSandiford
Fort MifflinSchool Lane
Frankford JunctionSchur's
 Sedgwick
Gibsons PointShackamaxon
Girard PointSouthwark
Gorgas 
GreenmountTemple
GreenwichTulpehocken
  
HarrowgateVernon Park
Holmesburg JunctionVerrees' Mills
  
Laurel HillWadsworth
LawntownWest Falls
LawtonWest Laurel Hill
League IslandWest Park
LeveringtonWest Philadelphia
LiddonfieldWestmoreland
LindleyWinghocking
Lumar ParkWyndmoor
  

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.