Post A Post Office

[brien]

One of the things I love to run across while traveling is old post offices in remote and forgotten places. What old post offices have you run across? Post a pic! Feel free to include any information you may have about the location

I'll start off with this beauty from Fairbank, Arizona

Location: Fairbank, AZ
Opened: May 16, 1883
Closed: 1970s

 

[brien]

Heading south out of the Aravaipa Canyon Wilderness you are likely to drive through Klondyke, Arizona. Don't blink or you'll miss what's left of it, which is essentially just this old post office and general store building that seems to be perpetually for sale.

Location: Klondyke, Arizona
Post office opened: 1907
Post office closed: 1955

 

[Luis Merlo]

Wooroolin, QLD....not much there....:)

 

[brien]

A payphone though!

 

[Luis Merlo]

And plants....lol

 

[brien]

Here's a post office in the ruins of the Copper Creek, AZ mining town. The only thing that remains of the post office is an old broken "Copper Creek" stone sign, some crumbling steps, and a building foundation

Location: Copper Creek, Arizona
Post office opened: March 6, 1906
Post office closed: August 31, 1942

 

[Jake Wettern | iamjake]

Astoria, OR Post Office - Built 1933 - Classical Revival Style - Listed on the National Register of Historic Places - taken August 2016

 

[Luis Merlo]

wow...

 

[brien]

Ran across another one this past weekend!

Location: Pearce, AZ
ZIP Code: 85625
Opened: March 6, 1896
Closed: Late 1960s

A sign hung at one end of the old post office reads:

HOWDY:

The Old Post Office was decommissioned in the late 1960's. During the Hey Day of the Commonwealth (Gold) Mine, it served 2500 people. Although the interior remains intact, the property is now a private residence.

Pearce saw its demise when the mine flooded, killing most of the minders. Their families left soon after leaving behind all but their basic necessities. Until the 1970's the townsite stood just as it had been abandoned decades before...

Please do not disturb the residence of the Old Post Office

Thank you.

 

[HappyOurOverlanding]

Darwin Post Office. Death Valley

 

[Don Meredith]

A recent trip to the Smokies of NC & TN took me through the small town of Del Rio, TN.