Post offices and the past | History Files

And just how did Plain gets its name?

 

Last updated 12/9/2021 at 9:20am

Tim Raetzloff

Alpine, Wash., in 1915. The old post office has an interesting past.

Did you ever play post office? I never did, and had no idea of the rules until doing some research on local post offices. A town was measured by its post office, as much as by its school or its railroad depot.

A post office was a sign that it was...



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