Do you know of Roxbury ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Roxbury. 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 Roxbury.
Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Roxbury, so we are uncertain whether Roxbury is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Roxbury would be found somewhere in Henrico County, Virginia.
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 Roxbury ...
We found 22 communities that share the name Roxbury.
There is one other community in Virginia which is also named Roxbury.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another 21 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 21 communities, twenty are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Virginia ...
- Charles City County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Roxbury [Charles City County].
- Charles City County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Connecticut
- Illinois
- Lee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Roxbury [Lee County].
- Kansas
- McPherson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Roxbury [McPherson County].
- Maine
- Oxford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Roxbury [Oxford County].
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Suffolk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Roxbury [Suffolk County].
- New Hampshire
- Cheshire County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Roxbury [Cheshire County].
- New Jersey
- New York
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Roxbury.
- Ohio
- Morgan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Roxbury [Morgan County].
- Pennsylvania
- Cambria County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Roxbury [Cambria County].
- Cumberland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Roxbury [Cumberland County].
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Roxbury [Franklin County].
- Somerset County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Roxbury [Somerset County].
- Prince Edward Island
- Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Roxbury.
- Vermont
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Roxbury [Washington County].
- Wisconsin
- Dane County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Roxbury [Dane County].
More Orphans in Henrico 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 Henrico 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Roxbury 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. |