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Do you know of Brewster ???

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

Our sources for Brewster (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 Brewster other than they indicate that Brewster would be found somewhere in Russell County, Virginia.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1882 and closed  in 1923.

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 Brewster ...

We found fifteen communities that share the name Brewster.

Within Virginia, the name Brewster is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • California
      • Shasta County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Brewster [Shasta County].
    • Colorado
      • Fremont 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 Colorado community of Brewster [Fremont County].
    • Florida
      • Polk County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Brewster [Polk County].
    • Illinois
      • Pike 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 Illinois community of Brewster [Pike County].
    • Kansas
      • Thomas County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Brewster [Thomas County].
    • Massachusetts
      • Barnstable County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Brewster [Barnstable County].
    • Minnesota
      • Nobles County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Brewster [Nobles County].
    • Nebraska
      • Blaine County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Brewster [Blaine County].
    • New York
      • Putnam County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Brewster [Putnam County].
    • Ohio
      • Stark County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Brewster [Stark 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 Brewster.
    • Oregon
      • Linn County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Brewster [Linn County].
    • Texas
      • Austin 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 Texas community of Brewster [Austin County].
    • Washington
      • Okanogan County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Brewster [Okanogan County].
    • West Virginia
      • Jackson 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 West Virginia community of Brewster [Jackson County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Brewster ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Russell 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 Russell County.

Bascomb ChurchHomer
BluegrassHonaker Junction
Brumfield 
 Midway
Candlewax 
ClideNew Garden
 Nunley
Dante Scale 
DrillPound
Dump CreekPumpkin Center
  
East HonakerQuarry
Elway 
 Rock House
Fink 
FinneySay
 Siemp
Gardner'sStallard
Gibsonville 
 Virginia City

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 Brewster 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.
<2>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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