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Technical-Role-4346 t1_j9cy3wo wrote

Reply to comment by JimBones31 in Historical question: commuting and town layouts pre-automobile? by LockedOutOfElfland

Correct many towns had several villages each with various businesses and often a post office. Today most of those businesses are gone but the place names have endured. A few still have a variety stores and sometimes a post office.

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JimBones31 t1_j9cyjgs wrote

>Today most of those businesses are gone but the place names have endured.

Can you provide some examples of where the names of have endured? I'm trying to think of places like "millersville" or something.

>A few still have a variety stores and sometimes a post office.

Don't nearly all towns have a variety store or convenience store and a post office?

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Technical-Role-4346 t1_j9defgo wrote

For Example: Blue Hill has villages of Blue Hill Falls, North Blue Hill, South Blue Hill, and Long Island at one time most or all of these villages had stores etc.
Mount Desert has villages of Beech Hill , Hall Quarry, Northeast Harbor, Otter Creek, Somesville - today nearly all the businesses are in Northeast Harbor.

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ecco-domenica t1_j9jkr95 wrote

Kennebunkport: the Port, Goose Rocks (Beechwood), Cape Porpoise

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