Local Post Offices That No Longer Exist !!

I have a collection of covers from post offices that have closed their doors..mainly in Dutchess and Columbia counties of New York State !! If you have similar covers please join in...i like this one from Fishkill on Hudson which I believe is now Beacon, New York !

Great cover Phil. Thanks for sharing it with us.

Dianne

Nice cover with an especially sharp postmark. By the way, Jim Forte's Postal History Web Site suggests that Fishkill-on-the-Hudson was an operating post office only from 1864-1914.

Thanks, I should know more about the area than I do...Fishkill is a treasure trove of historical information about the Revolutionary War !

This one is just up the road from me the Northern most hamlet in Dutchess county...the name was changed from Madalin to Tivoli New York I believe sometime in the 1940's..Tivoli still has a storefront post office !

New York and New Jersey have had a vast amount of small post offices that no longer exist. I have a few postmarks, but not many covers. Anyway, I had downloaded from this link a very interesting history (and word search puzzle) on DPO's from New Jersey that you might be interested in. It's a large pdf file, so it takes a minute or two to download, but a wealth of DPO information is there that I knew little about:

http://njpostalhistory.org/media/pd...zzlebook.pdf

Pretty interesting,i really do not know much about our neighbor Joisey except the Turnpike and Atlantic City !!

Very interesting philb. I live in Orange County myself although I've yet to really acquire much, if any, local material. Keep em coming! I like the solo prexie use myself.

Here's another one from the same general region. Although postmarked New York, NY, the backstamp shows it received at Rondout, NY, a now discontinued post office (1832/1969) that was part of Kingston, NY. Here's a year change cover (postmarked NY 12/31/1886; Rondout, NY Rec'd 01/01/1887) along with a close up of the backstamp and period picture of the actual post office:

I found a nice Cover from Louisville Kentucky dated 1896. I couldn't figure out if the Building is still there and or if it is used for a post office. Maybe someone that is better at research or that has more time on their hands can figure it out.









Dianne

Nice tobacco topical Dianne ! I like the Roundout cover..Roundout was incorporated into the city of Kingston..its the historic waterfront section...museums,art galleries and food and drink places!

This post office that was located on Route 9 part of the old Livingston patent was about 5 miles from my house..it closed the year I graduated high school 1957 !

I don't have the entire cover, just this cut square of an unusually large diameter hand cancel from West Morris, Connecticut. According to Jim Forte's Postal History Web Site, the post office was in operation from 1872-1922:

I collect DPO and postal history in several counties of northwest Arkansas. Here is one of my favorites. An octagonal Boonsborough Arkansas cancel dated 1891 and addressed to Gibson Station, Creek Nation, Indian Territory, about thirty miles away. Boonsborough was an early settlement in the southwest corner of Washington County Arkansas, close to the current Oklahoma border. The post office first opened in 1843 and changed the spelling of the name to Boonsboro in 1893, then changed again to Cane Hill in 1901. These older ones with the long spelling are very tough to come by!

The previous reference to a "borough" being reduced down to "boro" and a "burgh" being reduced to "burg" in most cases, is referenced in this interesting link from the USPS Historian as to how these names evolved through the years. Those interested in postal history will find it an interesting read:

http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/po...ce-names.pdf

Hats off to you again wt1. The link about naming post offices was very interesting.