Do you know of New Shoreham ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about New Shoreham. 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 New Shoreham.<1> We found mention of New Shoreham as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Newport County, Rhode Island. 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 1832 and closed in 1879. Communities Also Named New Shoreham ...We found one communities that share the name New Shoreham. There is one other community in Rhode Island which is also named New Shoreham. Beyond Rhode Island.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for New Shoreham ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about New Shoreham: Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3> 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)
More Orphans in Newport 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 Newport County. Footnotes ...
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