Post Offices
Updated 10/18/2023
Post Offices play an important role in most communities. In addition to forwarding, receiving and delivering mail, Post Offices can ship or receive packages. In small or rural communities, Post Offices had, and still do, serve as a place for socializing with friends, neighbors and acquaintances.
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Since Auburn's establishment in 1857, the Auburn Post Office has been relocated several times for various reasons. Presently, Auburn has had at least five separate locations for its Post Office over the years. Those locations are indicated on the adjacent map by the red dots. If anyone has additional information about the post office or its employees (especially names of those who worked the Auburn area or within the Auburn post office), please let us know so that we might update our info by using the "Visitor Input" button below.
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CANAL STREET - W. R. Schultz owned a structure on Canal Street which contained both a Post Office and a general store. The Post Office was established in Auburn in 1846...eleven years before the town was officially founded. This location is depicted on the excerpt from DeBeer's 1875 Atlas featured here. Isaac Hoffmeister served as Auburn's first Post Master. Presently, not only does this structure no longer exist, but the entirety of all Canal Street and its structures are no longer in existence.
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125 MARKET STREET - After relocating from Canal Street, the Post Office was located at 125 Market Street. This picture from the 1920s shows Sam Borkey, an early Mail Carrier for the Auburn area, standing in front of his quaint U.S. Mail horse and carriage while individuals on the stoop of the Post Office pose for the picture as well. The structure is currently utilized as a private residence.
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202 WASHINGTON STREET - After an election several decades ago, the Post Office was relocated to this house at 202 Washington Street in favor of the prevailing political party at that time. The Post Office was located on the far left of the structure while the remainder of the building was occupied by residents. After the political party fell out of favor, the Post Office was relocated back to Market Street. This structure is currently utilized as a private residence.
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127 MARKET STREET - After an election is which the prevailing political party was replaced, the Post Office was once again relocated from its prior site on Washington Street to its new site at 127 Market Street. A vintage mailbox sat adjacent to the steps leading into the Post Office. If you compare this picture to that of the 125 Market Street picture (two above this one), you'll recognize the adjacent porch's decorate roof skirt as having been the same one seen in the background on the earlier photo. Below is a picture of how the interior of this Post Office had previously appeared. This location is currently utilized as a private residence.
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POST-MASTERS/MISTRESSES
(PARTIAL LISTING- Chronological Order ) Isaac Hoffmeister (1st Postmaster of Auburn) 1846
(No records from 1846-1896) Alois K. "A.K. Bace c. 1896 James "Geedy" Raush 1897 - 1904 Kate Raush (poss. James' wife) c. 1904 John Howard Fahl c. 1915 - c. 1918 Enoch A. Raush (James' son) c. 1922 Samuel E. Marbarger c. 1934 - c. 1959 Albert Israel Nagle c. 1960s? Margaret Koch c. 1967 POST OFFICE EMPLOYEES
(PARTIAL LISTING - Alphabetical by Surname, First Name) Bace, Alois K. "A. K." (postmaster)(c. 1896)
Borkey, Samuel (mail carrier) Clauser, John Robert (mail carrier)(1958-1985) Clauser, Karleen (mail carrier) Fahl, John Howard (postmaster c. 1915 - c. 1918) Faust, Ruth Evelyn Marbarger (clerk) Hoffmeister, Isaac (postmaster)(c. 1846) Koch, Margaret E. (clerk)(postmistress)(c. 1967) Marbarger Faust, Ruth Evelyn (clerk) Marbarger, Samuel E. (postmaster)(c. 1934 - c. 1959) Nagle, Albert Israel (postmaster)(c. 1960s?) Raush, Enoch A. (postmaster)(c. 1906 - c. 1922) Raush, James "Geedy" (postmaster)(1897-1904) Raush, Kate (postmistress)(c. 1904) Reber, John Grant (mail carrier) Seigfried, Arlean L. (clerk) |