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Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Port Richmond came from various goverment sources (GNIS, FIPS), we also found mention of Port Richmond 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 Port Richmond. We hope that they will be useful to you.

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

 

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Port Richmond:
Services available in 1895: had a Post Office, a Railroad Station

North American Railroad Atlas - Northeast
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by RailfanDepot, 2020
(Available from Amazon.com)

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

Port Richmond 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 Port Richmond. See our Misc Page for Port Richmond for more information.

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/