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Indiantown post office, 1955
Published in the Stuart News (1 Dec 1955) with the caption: "Indiantown Post Office To Be Moved. The U.S. Post Office at Indiantown is feeling the pinch of progress. John Gray, manager of the Indiantown project, and Mrs. Carrie H. Caveny, postmaster, discuss the proposed move into new quarters." -
Martin County Postmaster appointments, 1876-1971
Pages from the large record group "Records of the Post Office Department, 1773–1971" (Record Group 28, NAID: 357) at the U.S. National Archives. Includes postal offices and postmasters for towns now in Martin County. The counties these towns were located in changes from Dade to Brevard to Palm Beach, and some are in St. Lucie County at one time.Tags Postmasters -
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Stuart Post Office, c. 1917
Several men outside of Feroe Building (73 S.W. Flagler Avenue, Stuart, Florida). Businesses include the Stuart Drug Company and the Stuart Post Office. Ivy LeRoy Ricou, son of postmaster Ernest J. Ricou, in doorway. The post office moved into the Feroe Building, built in 1913, in 1915 and moved out in 1925. Published in the Stuart News, 25th Historical Edition (9 Nov 1950). -
Martin County Postmasters List
From a binder labeled "Postmasters & Post offices." Includes lists of Martin County's First Postmasters (1880-1914), Stuart Postmasters (1892-2007), and short biographies of Broster Kitching, E.J. Ricou, and James R. Pomeroy.Tags Postmasters -
Port Sewall Post Office, c. 1935
Three people, Caroline Saul Smith (1886-1986); husband Maxwell B. Smith (1881-1935), nephew of Sewall's Point Capt. Henry Sewall, bond broker and former mayor of Monmouth Beach, and winter resident of Port Sewall; and Caroline's father Theodore C. Saul (1858-1941), a musician and merchant, formerly a member of the Metropolitan Opera Company orchestra and the Seventh Regiment Band of New York, and postmaster of the Port Sewall post office from its establishment on 27 Nov 1914 to 1926. -
Excerpt from A Chronology of Florida Post Offices, 1962
Excerpt from the book A Chronology of Florida Post Offices by Alford G. Bradbury and E. Story Hallock. Lists town name, post office establishment date, date discontinued, and county name. -
History of Salerno letter, 1948
Letter from Stanley Kitching, as chairman of the Florida Inland Navigation District, to Gladys H. Perry of the Salerno Civic Association.
Historical details include that the earlier name of the community was "Alicia" after the first [actually the second] wife of Henry Flagler, and that it was renamed Salerno by E.J. Ricou on suggestion of Hugh Willoughby. The mail at one time was delivered to Sewall's Point by boat, then delivered in a rowboat by Daniel Webster; the first railroad agent was R.L. Belville.Tags Post offices -
History of Martin County excerpt concerning post offices, 1998
Three pages from the History of Martin County (p. 425-427) listing several post offices with short histories.Tags Post offices