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This is a mess, not the least because it is actually two different spots. The original location was a passing siding and water stop, a spot now utterly abandoned. The current location is labelled "Aberdeen" on topos from the same era, but the small cluster of buildings resolves in reality to the
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Having a post office doesn't meam something was a settlement, there were plenty of rural post offices at the time which weren't settlements. It doesn't look like anyone has even seen the text of the other source so we certainly can't use that. At a bare minimum we need a source which says "this
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