Vermont AHGP
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Genealogy Project
Worchester Post Office
Post Office for statistics, we are indebted to Hon. Charles Lyman, formerly of Montpelier, and for many years chief of the dead letter department of the P. O. Department, Washington.
An office was established here Jan. 5, 1828. The inhabitants had before procured, what little mail matter they received, at Montpelier.
Postmasters, 1828-1879
| Amos Rice
was appointed first postmaster, Jan. 5, 1828;
Amos Rice, Jr., Mar. 5, 1828 Rufus Reed, Jr., Jan. 31, 1831 Samuel Andrews, Nov. 2, 1832 Jonas Abbott, April i, 1847 Oliver A. Stone, Sept. 18, 1853 Thaddeus B. Ladd, Aug. 25,1854 Charles C. Abbott, April 13, 1861, who is the present incumbent-1879. |
John Rice, son of Amos Rice, was the first mail carrier; and it has been stated that at the first he carried the mail in his hat, now there are some 300 copies of newspapers and magazines taken in town. After a good road was worked through the town to Elmore, the mail was carried through here to the towns north; and subsequently the route from Montpelier and the south, to St. Albans, was through this town, and continued so until the Central Vt. R. R. was built. We now have a daily mail (Sunday excepted,) by stage from Montpelier to and from Morrisville.
Source: History of Washington County Vermont, Collated and Published by Abby Maria Hemenway, 1882.
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