A Brief Introduction to Postmarks and Cancellations 5 Historical Records of the United States Post Office 19 Alabama 23. From the earliest days of stamp production in the United States, one of the major concerns of the Postal Service has been to prevent the illegal reuse of stamps. In a single motion, this circular date stamp (CDS) imprinted both the date and the name of the sender city with a target killer obliterating the stamp.
They consisted of a single circular ring containing the name of the post office, state, date and time, and an ellipse with a long vertical axis as part of the cancellation. Name of sending post, country, date and initials R.F.D. Figure 8) were defined in four lines in the left part.
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In the fall of 1906, the Post Office Department distributed the 4-bar killer hand stamp to newly established small post offices and furnished them with existing post offices as replacement equipment. The main difference in the 4-bar Type B was the wide 20mm vertical spacing between the kill bars, although the type style also had a bold, square sans-serif look (Figure 10). These were used as temporary or emergency stamps because there was no standard postmark equipment.
During the first half of the 20th century, the postal system experienced a tremendous growth in the amount of mail that had to be processed and delivered. In the 20th century, many post offices designed special stamps with a slogan to promote an event of regional importance (Figure 14).
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There are 115 defunct or currently operating post offices in the United States with the word "Cave, Cavern, Grotto, or Bat" in their town names. It should be noted that many cities have been operating for decades, such as Cave City, Kentucky, and have more than 15 different terminations. As such, I can only assume that the names of the post offices in question are derived from local features listed on United States Geological Survey topographic maps.
State tables show the place or town name and zip code if available, the dates of operation and the county where the post office is or was. The word Open below the dates of operation means that the post office is still in operation, and the word Unknown means that date information is unknown at the time of this publication.
The records also include the state in which the post office was located and the dates of establishment and discontinuation. These data are listed alphabetically first by state, then by county, and finally by post office name. Post Office Department Heynen Records and Policies Relating to Place Names, Information Document Reference No.
William Stewart, postmaster at Loyal, moved the post office to the Laman settlement and changed the name to Cave City (Figure 24). Cave Dale Post Office was 4% miles southwest of Aqua Caliente Post Office and 7 miles west of Glen Ellen Post Office (Figure 25).
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Cave-in-Rock (formerly known as Rock and Cave, Big Cave, Fords Ferry and Robbins Ferry) is located in Hardin County on the north bank of the Ohio River in southeastern Illinois and has a population of 450. was situated AVI miles east of Hymira and 5 miles south-east of Coffee. Located near the historic cave entrance, half a mile east of Green River, 3 miles north of Kentucky Route 70 and 14 miles east of Brownsville.
On June 12, 1860, Beverly Curd, the storekeeper and postmaster of the Woodland General Store and Post Office (established 1850), moved the location to Knob City. Major Anderson's deed to the railroad contained one restriction: the name of the station must always be Horse Cave. However, Caverna has been preserved in the name of the independent school district shared with neighboring Cave City.
Wind Cave Post Office was near the fork of the Lick Branch of the War Fork of Station Camp Creek, 6Vi miles northeast of McKee in Jackson County. Cave Ridge Post Office was located in Metcalfe County, off Interstate 64, just east of Cave City. Cave Run Post Office was on the mail route from Salt Lick to Yale, located on the banks of the Licking River about 30 feet from the Licking River Railway Ragland Depot.
The Caves Post Office was on Postal Route 29136, 6 miles northwest of Carter and 3 miles southeast of the K & F Branch of the C & O Railroad. The Peter Cave Post Office was on the Peter Cave Road, about 7 miles north of Inez and 7 miles east of Peach Orchard. One of the hunters, Tom Williams, returned with friends six years after the discovery to explore the cave.
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PSS 705, issued in the summer of 1932, is a wide manual electronic stamp with a condensed font, wide letter spacing in 2% mm capital letters and 1 mm between the city name and country abbreviation. There are no known postmarks from the Grotto post office, which was 5 miles northwest of West Groton and 5 miles west of the Southern Central Railroad Peru station. Checklist of New York State Post Offices to 1850: With Names of First Postmasters.
Fissure caves like this system are formed by rock fracturing, boulder shifts, and other earth movements, while most other caves are formed by the grinding and dissolution of rock in water. A 1984 survey measured the total length of passages at 5,560 feet, making the Bat Cave system the second longest known granite fissure cave in the world and the longest granite cave in North America. One of The Nature Conservancy's goals in managing this reserve is to re-establish the critically endangered Indian bat in its former habitat.
The land that is now Hocking Hills State Park has been traveled and inhabited almost continuously by American Indians for centuries, beginning with the Adena 7,000 years ago, expanding to the Wyandot, Delaware, and Shawnee in the 17th century. In the 1830s a powder mill was built in the park near Rockhouse and a grist mill was built at Cedar Falls. 34;the poet of the Sierras.” Mesmerized, Miller wrote about the “Marble Halls of Oregon.” The publicity that followed alerted federal officials to the possibility of cave preservation, and in 1909, President William Howard Taft declared the 480-acre tract a national Oregon Caves Monument.
Workers blew up tunnels and widened the cave passages in the 1930s, placing waste rocks in the side passages, covering many limestone formations. Lights in the cave promoted algae growth, turning parts of the cave green, while smoke from torches turned other parts black. Takilma Rural Station is named after the Takilma Indians and was located on the east fork of the Illinois River from September 1, 1958 to September 16, 1967.
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By the mid-1880s, the Bee Caves community had a steam mill, cotton gin, general store, church, school, and 20 residents. In 1915 the post office at Bee Caves was discontinued and mail for the community was sent to Cedar Valley (Figure 75). Natural Bridge Caverns, the largest exhibition cave in Texas, was discovered on March 27, 1960 by four students from St.
The cave is located off Farm Road 1863 in the hills of Comal County, midway between New Braunfels and San Antonio. The San Antonio Natural Bridge Caverns Rural Station operated as a substation of the San Antonio Post Office (Figure 76). Natural Bridge Caverns, Texas, 4-bar killer and Natural Bridge Caverns, Texas, Rural Station double round.
Payne filed the site survey and petition to establish the Grottoes Post Office on October 9, 1901. According to The Heritage of Virginia: The Story of Place Names in the Old Dominion by James Hagemann, Grottoes was originally called Shendun and was established when people settled in the area to work iron mines and furnaces. Between 1888 when the post office opened and 1890 the town's name was shortened from Grottoes of Shenandoah to Grottoes.
The town of Weyers Cave was founded on March 3, 1874, when the first passenger train pulled into town and stopped at the still-unfinished depot. The town and post office are named after the cave, and the post office has been in continuous operation since 1877. Kagey, the town's first railroad agent, contracted to haul freight to the new depot and with him opened a general store and post office as the first postmaster.
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The new stop on the B & O Railroad was first called Cave Station because of the nearby Caves. With the exception of Sundays, one passenger and one passenger-goods train passed through the town daily (Figure 80). Endless Caverns, Virginia, seven undulating lines machine cancel; the special mark, of National Airmail Week, illustrates the first flight of the Shenandoah Valley Airmail Route.
Shenandoah Caverns, in Quicksburg County along Interstate 81, was discovered in 1884 during the construction of the Southern Railroad and was commercialized in 1922. The post office was named for the caves and remained in operation until 1943 (Figures 84 and 85). The creek has carved a gorge in the limestone terrain forming an arch 215 feet high with a span of 90 feet.
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There was a suggestion to call it Rock Lava for what appeared to be lava rocks found on Straight Fork Run, assuming that there was once a volcano in the area. Organ Cave, off Route 219 in Greenbrier County south of Ronceverte, is named for a stalactite formation that resembles an organ. It is the 37th largest cave in the world, was once mined for saltpeter, and also served as General Robert E.
There were no cave or cave-related post offices in the states of Delaware, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Utah, or Vermont. Appendix One - Cave Post Offices: a combined list of the previously discussed states and their corresponding cave post offices. Appendix Two - Some Cave-Related Post Offices: A list of 32 states with selected cave-related post office names, for example, Sinking Spring, Limestone, and Lost Creek.
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