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always to be kept open and free from incumbrance of any kind.”15 A post office was established on 1 January 1802 with Charles Stewart serving as Doylestown’s first postmaster. It was said that he regularly carried letters in the bell-shaped crown of his high beaver hat to deliver mail to his patrons. A similar high beaver
Jun 14, 2021 · Meet Charles Stewart. He was the village postmaster when the first office opened on Jan. 1, 1802. It was just 27 years after the U.S. Post Office was born during the American Revolution. Charlie’s claim to fame is he started the first door-to-door postal delivery route in the United States.
Charles Stewart, the first postmaster, carried letters to recipients in the bell-shaped crown of his high beaver hat as he walked about the village. When Stewart died on February 7, 1804, his son-in-law Enoch Harvey became the next postmaster.
- 456 ft (139 m)
- Bucks
- 18901–18902
- Pennsylvania
Aug 15, 2016 · Background. This record was prepared in the office of the Junior Assistant to the Postmaster General from 1832 to January 2, 1835; Second Assistant Postmaster General from July 2, 1836, to 1851; First Assistant Postmaster General from 1851 to 1950; and the Bureau of Post Office Operations from 1950 to September 30, 1971. Records Description.
Currently serving as the Doylestown branch of the Bucks County (Pa.) Free Library, the Melinda Cox Library was Doylestown's first free library. It opened in 1917 through a bequest of Doylestown resident Charles Cox (1832-1914) who left his entire estate to create a community library named after his mother, Melinda Hines Cox (1803-1890).
Located a mile north of the Routes 611-202 convergence, thirty-five miles north of Center City Philadelphia, Doylestown has served as the government center of Bucks County for over two centuries. Once a small village surrounded by farms, Doylestown developed into a bustling borough with a thriving downtown, a university, two museums, and ...
Dec 18, 2013 · Doylestown has a rich history and has received numerous accolades over it's 250 plus years. Caroline Hickey, a senior researcher for the National Geographic Guide to Small Town Escapes, has said ...
