1939 Cover Postmarked Mooselookmeguntic Maine

A good friend gifted me this cover at lunch today. I think it interesting in that it is postmarked Mooselookmeguntic Maine. Mooselookmeguntic is notable in that it has 17 letters and five syllables, making it the longest town or city name (without hyphens or spaces) in the US.

The post office appears to have originally been named Haines Landing and operated from June 21, 1888 until January 31, 1935. It was re-established on 28 July 28, 1936 as Mooselookmeguntic and operated until it was discontinued on September 30, 1947.

Don

Nice
At 17 characters, it is tied with Kleinfeltersville, Pennsylvania.

17 letters might be tops for a US city but one could likely misspell seventeen letters in the longest place name with little notice:

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu

Thank the Kiwis for that one or should I say that eighty-five lettered one.

Largest Place name in the world, is Bangkok (Thailand)
(The official version)

Hi

Originally I am from Maine. All I can say is good old Mooselook. We have other places with Indian names that are just as bad.

JerryB