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Do you know of Tripoli ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Tripoli. 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 Tripoli.

We found mention of Tripoli as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.

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.

Communities Also Named Tripoli ...

We found seven communities that share the name Tripoli.

There is one other community in Pennsylvania which is also named Tripoli.

Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another six communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these six communities, six are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
    • Cambria County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Tripoli [Cambria County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Iowa
      • Bremer County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Tripoli [Bremer County].
    • Missouri
      • Newton County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Tripoli [Newton County].
    • New York
      • Cortland County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Tripoli [Cortland County].
      • Washington County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Tripoli [Washington County].
    • Ontario
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Tripoli.
    • Wisconsin
      • Lincoln County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Tripoli [Lincoln County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Tripoli ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Tripoli:

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Tripoli - Services available: had a Railroad Station, Express Office, no Post Office mentioned

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

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

More Orphans in  Lehigh 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 Lehigh County.

AineyvilleLower Catasauqua
Allen CrestLower Fullerton
 Lowhill
Best 
Bethlehem JunctionMetamora
 Minnich
Centre Valley 
CentroniaNorth Whitehall
Cherry Ford 
CraneOswaldville
  
DeibertsvilleParkview Gardens
DresherPlover
 Portland
East Penn Junction 
East SlatedaleRingers
Elliott HeightsRolling Hills
Emaus 
 Saucona
FerndaleSaucon's
FranklinSchadts
 Shepherd Hills
GardnerSherersville
German CornersShoenersville
Germans CornerSiegersville
Guth's StationSouth Whitehall
 Spring Mill
HartsvilleStetler
Heinly 
HoffmanUpper Saucon
  
JordanWalberts
 Waldenheim Park
Kline's CornersWalnut Gardens
KraussdaleWeishample
 West Coplay
Lehigh ValleyWhitehall

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Tripoli 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.









 

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