Do you know of Spring Garden ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Spring Garden. 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 Spring Garden.<1>
We found mention of Spring Garden as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Lancaster 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 1864 and closed in 1882.
Communities Also Named Spring Garden ...
We found nineteen communities that share the name Spring Garden.
There are seven communities within Pennsylvania that are also named Spring Garden.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another twelve communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twelve communities, eighteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- Allegheny County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Spring Garden [Allegheny County].
- Bucks County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Spring Garden [Bucks County].
- Philadelphia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Spring Garden [Philadelphia County].
- Schuylkill County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Spring Garden [Schuylkill County].
- Union County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Spring Garden [Union County].
- Westmoreland County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Spring Garden [Westmoreland County].
- York County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Spring Garden [York County].
- Allegheny County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Cherokee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Spring Garden [Cherokee County].
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Spring Garden [Jefferson County].
- California
- Plumas County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Spring Garden [Plumas County].
- Florida
- Volusia County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Spring Garden [Volusia County].
- Illinois
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Spring Garden [Jefferson County].
- Missouri
- Miller County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Spring Garden [Miller County].
- North Carolina
- Craven County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Spring Garden [Craven County].
- Nova Scotia
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Spring Garden.
- Virginia
- Bristol City
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Spring Garden [Bristol City].
- Pittsylvania County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Spring Garden [Pittsylvania County].
- Salem City
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Spring Garden [Salem City].
- West Virginia
- Roane County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Spring Garden [Roane County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Spring Garden ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Spring Garden:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
The FIPS database contains an entry for Spring Garden.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 42/73128 (Place Name: Spring Garden)
County: Lancaster (FIPS State/County: 42/071)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, Spring Garden) 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 Lancaster 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 Lancaster County.
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> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Spring Garden could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <4> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |