POST MARK COLLECTORS CLUB - POST OFFICE PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION

Post Office: Hartford, CT 06101 (Hartford County)
Date of Photo: circa 1910-20
Contributor: Paul E. Petosky, Postmarks from the Past
Comment: Established on May 8, 1775 with William Ellery as its first postmaster. IMPORTANT HISTORICAL FACTS: First known postmaster. William Ellery is first listed as postmaster of the Hartford Post Office on this date under William Goodard's Constitutional Post, which may have operated as early as August of 1774.