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No indication that this is an actual recognized community. Map does show a Sigmund road. Seems to be just an informal area mis-labeled in GNIS.
MB04:10, 27 May 2022 (UTC)reply
A creamery and home were built there in 1886. (p.152)
[4] - The Hereford Literary Society wrote that "many new members had come in from Harlem, Sigmund and vicinity" (p.151). This source also lists many names of people with a P.O. address of Sigmund.
Comment - Still not seeing this is a community. GNIS is not a reliable source for making such determination. Every other source above refers to Sigmund/Sigmund Furnace/Hampton Furnace as an industrial site - a kiln where charcoal was made. After that, the site was a gunpowder mill until it blew up, and later a creamery. It was owned/run by one family. A birth occurred in their house on the property (the homestead). No one lived on the property except the proprietor. There was a post office named Sigmund for a short time "on the road to the mill", and a small school used the name Hampton, but this was after the mill-site had shut down. IMO, it's a stretch to label this a community when the majority of the sources clearly are talking about the mill site. We don't have articles on every farm/ranch/factory, etc.
MB15:57, 28 May 2022 (UTC)reply
I would still stay this is not a legally recognized place and therefore fails
WP:NGEO. It was a small
Hamlet (place) (see the specific definition for
Hamlet (place)#New York which I am personally comfortable extending for purposes of determining notability). This place had no government, boundaries, or any of the other hallmarks of a community, except a short-lived post office. It is a "rural neighborhood" that should be covered in "the more general article on the legally recognized populated place or administrative subdivision that contains it". Since the article is virtually all
WP:OR, there is nothing to be merged but I support a mention and redirect to
Upper Milford Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.
MB19:27, 28 May 2022 (UTC)reply
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No indication that this is an actual recognized community. Map does show a Sigmund road. Seems to be just an informal area mis-labeled in GNIS.
MB04:10, 27 May 2022 (UTC)reply
A creamery and home were built there in 1886. (p.152)
[4] - The Hereford Literary Society wrote that "many new members had come in from Harlem, Sigmund and vicinity" (p.151). This source also lists many names of people with a P.O. address of Sigmund.
Comment - Still not seeing this is a community. GNIS is not a reliable source for making such determination. Every other source above refers to Sigmund/Sigmund Furnace/Hampton Furnace as an industrial site - a kiln where charcoal was made. After that, the site was a gunpowder mill until it blew up, and later a creamery. It was owned/run by one family. A birth occurred in their house on the property (the homestead). No one lived on the property except the proprietor. There was a post office named Sigmund for a short time "on the road to the mill", and a small school used the name Hampton, but this was after the mill-site had shut down. IMO, it's a stretch to label this a community when the majority of the sources clearly are talking about the mill site. We don't have articles on every farm/ranch/factory, etc.
MB15:57, 28 May 2022 (UTC)reply
I would still stay this is not a legally recognized place and therefore fails
WP:NGEO. It was a small
Hamlet (place) (see the specific definition for
Hamlet (place)#New York which I am personally comfortable extending for purposes of determining notability). This place had no government, boundaries, or any of the other hallmarks of a community, except a short-lived post office. It is a "rural neighborhood" that should be covered in "the more general article on the legally recognized populated place or administrative subdivision that contains it". Since the article is virtually all
WP:OR, there is nothing to be merged but I support a mention and redirect to
Upper Milford Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.
MB19:27, 28 May 2022 (UTC)reply
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