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Trickham Rural
Station
After Trickham's
independent full-fledged post office closed down in 1958 the community
was served consecutively by what the Post Office Department designated
as a Rural Station, then a Rural Branch, and then a Community Post
Office - all under the aegis of the larger post office in the nearby
town of Santa Anna.
A local resident and a much earlier postmistress, Minnie L. Wilson,
did not want to see the community lose its name or be without some
sort of postal facility, so she agreed to take over the reduced operations,
apparently in her home, for the sum of $75 per month!
Below is a cover from the "rural station era", and above is a photo
of Mrs. Wilson taken in 1971 in front of her post office. She passed
away in 1981, two years after the last vestige of a postal presence
in Trickham had vanished. -
John J. Germann, September 23, 2018 |
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