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Do you know of Niantic ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Niantic. 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 Niantic. Our sources for Niantic (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 Niantic other than they indicate that Niantic would be found somewhere in Washington County, Rhode Island. From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1873 and closed in 1911. 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 Niantic ...We found four communities that share the name Niantic. Within Rhode Island, the name Niantic is unique. Beyond Rhode Island, we know of another four communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Niantic ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Niantic: Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1> Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Niantic - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office Rand McNally Map of Rhode Island (1911)
More Orphans in Washington 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 Washington County. Footnotes ...
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