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Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Westmoreland came from various goverment sources (GNIS, FIPS), we also found mention of Westmoreland in various books and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Westmoreland. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: When we started collecting data about Westmoreland, we were inconsistent about keeping track of where that data came from. As a result, this list of references and mentions is probably incomplete.

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)

Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

In this book, Westmoreland was listed as Westmoreland Courthouse.<1>

U.S. Post Offices (1803)

Printed by order of the Post Master General

In this book, Westmoreland was listed as Westmoreland Courthouse.<1>

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)

Published by John T. Towers

In this book, Westmoreland was listed as Westmoreland Courthouse.<1>

In addition:

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

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for Westmoreland. See our Misc Page for Westmoreland for more information.

Footnotes ...

<1>	For information about how community names have been affected by the Board of Geographic Names (BGN), see our page about Placename Rules.
<2>	A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/