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Over time, there have been 56 differently
named post offices in Boone County, listed below.
The peak in
Boone County
was in 1907, when there were 27 active post offices. But better
roads, the automobile, and rural free delivery came together to
eliminate lot of them. 1907 to 1920 saw a lot of consolidation but
not near as drastically in Boone as in other counties.
The
USPS has a web site
here,
that lists every postmaster in the history of some, current
post offices. As of this writing in fall of 2005, Verona,
Union, Florence and Burlington are listed, Walton, Petersburg, and
Hebron are not.
Here is a chart that
will give you a vague idea of how many post offices were open in any
given year between the first (Boone Court House, 1807) and now.
There’s a similar
chart that covers all eleven counties of Northern Kentucky Views,
here.
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