September 22, 2026
Tag: Winter time mail delivery
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Winter Mail Delivery in Rural Dakota
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One American institution that depended on population growth to grown was the United States Postal Service. One very popular service that changed much of the American mid-west was Rural Free Delivery. Read “Winter Mail” buy Postcard History’s new Acquisitions Editor, Duane Stabler.
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April 4, 2022 7 Comments
In the last decade of the 19th century Pasadena, California, became a resort city where the rich met the resourceful. Some would say, where the money meets the brain. One encounter, the one between Thaddeus Lowe (the rich man) and David Macpherson (the brain and a Cornell University engineer), met and the Mount Lowe Railroad was the result of their joint assets.