Westport, Maine, post office collection
Scope and Content note
Correspondence, forms, receipts, circulars, broadsides, accounts.
Dates
- Creation: 1863 - 1885
Creator
- United States. Post Office Department (Organization)
- Webber, S.P. (Person)
Access
Unrestricted
Copyright
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Administrative note
Most of these materials are regarding the post office in Westport, Maine. S. P. Webber was the postmaster at the time (possibly Stephen Prescott Webber, 1827-1897). William W. Knight, Eugene P. Webber, F. (?) G. Greenleaf, Edward McCarty, Robert Cameron were mail carriers or messengers. There appears to be a connection between the post office on Westport Island and the post office in Woolwich, as well as a mail route from Bath to Westport. Mail seems to have come from the steamboat landing to the post office. The post office on the island was discontinued in 1907, but mail delivery continued.
Extent
0.25 Linear Feet (1 box + 1 oversized folder)
Language of Materials
English
Provenance
Found in backlog, 2024. Accessioned in 1967 (acc. no. 67-1359-1).
Processing note
Some duplicate blank forms were removed.
Subject
- McLellan, Hugh D. (Hugh Davis), 1805-1878 -- Correspondence (Person)
- Webber, Eugene P. (Person)
- Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881 -- Assassination (Person)
- Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830-1893 (Person)
- Eastern Steamship Company (Organization)
- Garfield Memorial Hospital (Washington, D.C.) (Organization)
- Title
- Guide to the Westport, Maine, post office collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Nancy Noble, MHS Archivist, September 2024
- Date
- October 11, 2024
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Maine Historical Society Repository