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Do you know of Robeson ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Robeson. 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 Robeson. Our sources for Robeson (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 Robeson other than they indicate that Robeson would be found somewhere in Berks County, Pennsylvania. From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1837 and closed in 1886. 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. 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. Communities Also Named Robeson ...We found one communities that share the name Robeson. Within Pennsylvania, the name Robeson is unique. Beyond Pennsylvania, there is another community also named Robeson in the United States.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Robeson ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Robeson: Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2> Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Robeson - Services available: had a Railroad Station, Express Office, no Post Office mentioned List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
The FIPS database contains an entry for Robeson. Referenced FIPS Records ... FIPS Code: 42/65312 (Place Name: Robeson) County: Berks (FIPS State/County: 42/011) Class: U8 Identifies a populated place (in this case, Robeson) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). More Orphans in Berks 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 Berks County. Footnotes ...
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