Do you know of Greenwich ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Greenwich. 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 Greenwich.
We found mention of Greenwich as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Kent County, Rhode Island.
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 Greenwich ...
We found sixteen communities that share the name Greenwich.
Within Rhode Island, the name Greenwich is unique.
Beyond Rhode Island, we know of another sixteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these sixteen communities, fourteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Connecticut
- Fairfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Greenwich [Fairfield County].
- Illinois
- Kankakee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Greenwich [Kankakee County].
- Kansas
- Sedgwick County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Greenwich [Sedgwick County].
- Massachusetts
- New Jersey
- Cumberland County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Greenwich [Cumberland County].
- New York
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Greenwich [Washington County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Greenwich.
- Ohio
- Huron County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Greenwich [Huron County].
- Pennsylvania
- Cambria County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Greenwich [Cambria County].
- Philadelphia County
- 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 Pennsylvania community of Greenwich [Philadelphia County].
- Prince Edward Island
- Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Greenwich.
- Utah
- Piute County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Greenwich [Piute County].
- Virginia
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Greenwich ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Greenwich:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Greenwich - Services available: had a Railroad Station, Express Office, no Post Office mentioned
More Orphans in Kent 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 Kent County.
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 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 Greenwich 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. |