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Transcription contributed by Arne H Trelvik 6 September 2003 |
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The History of Warren County Ohio
Part III. History of Warren County
Chapter VI. General Progress (Chicago, IL: W. H. Beers Co, 1882; reprint, Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1992) |
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Post OfficesThere were no post offices within the limits of Warren County for more than eight years after the settlements were commenced. Cincinnati was for several years the post office for the whole Miami Valley. At the beginning of the present century, letters were advertised as remaining in the post office at Cincinnati addressed as follows: “John Bigger, Fourth Range;” “Thomas Espy, Little Miami;” “John Wallace, School Master, Turtle Creek;” “Moses Crane, Fourth Range;” others were addressed “Bailey’s Station,” “Below the Big Miami,” “Duck Creek,” “Big Prairie,” etc. Within two years after the organization of the State Government, four post offices were established in Warren Count, viz.: at Waynesville, Deerfield, Franklin and Lebanon. Ten years then elapsed before any others were established. In 1812, Montgomery, in Hamilton County, was made a post office, and it accommodated a portion of the people of Warren living in the southwestern part of the county. The first mail between Cincinnati and Pittsburgh was carried in a canoe, in February, 1794. A line of row-boats was established in that year between those points, with relays at different stations, to carry the mail. The first |
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mails to post offices in Warren County were carried by a
post-rider. The route was from Cincinnati to Lebanon, Xenia, Urbana, thence
across to Piqua, and down through Dayton, Franklin and Hamilton to Cincinnati,
taking a week to make the trip. The people thought themselves fortunate
in having a weekly mail service for some years. The mail was carried by
post-riders until about the year 1825, when stage lines were started with
the mails.
There are persons still living who can remember when the postage on a letter, which must be written on a single sheet of paper, between Cincinnati and New Orleans, was 25 cents, and the freight on a barrel of flour between the same points was sometimes below that figure. Most men at that time would have regarded our present mail facilities an impossibility, and especially would the prediction that letters would one day be carried from Maine to California for three cents have been regarded as a Utopian dream. The following complete list of all post offices in Warren County, dates of their establishment and names of the first Postmasters, was prepared by George W. Frost, of the Pension Office, from the books of the Post Office Department at Washington: [NOTE: The list provided in Beers has been changed from a chronological to an alphabetical list] |
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[NOTE: The list provided in Beers has been changed from a chronological list to an alphabetical list]
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