Post Offices of Carroll County
 
 


Over time, there have been over 19 differently named post offices in Carroll County. 

 

Carroll County's trends of post office openings and closings are pretty different from the rest of Northern Kentucky.  Unlike most counties, Carroll didn't have a large number of post offices (Grant had 37, for instance) and they didn't create a "spike" of openings around 1900.

 

The USPS has a web site here, that lists every postmaster in the history of some, current post offices.  As of this writing in summer of 2006, Carrollton and Sanders are listed,  Worthville is 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 (Port William, 1807) and now.

 

There’s a similar chart that covers all eleven counties of Northern Kentucky Views, here.
 
Began Closed   Town  
1894 1903   Adcock  
1865 1879 Bramlette Early name for Sanders
1838     Carrollton  
1870 1964   Eagle Station  
1890 1903   Easterday  
1876 1957   English  
1817     Ghent  
1837 1858   Grass Hills  
1879 1884   Liberty Station Early name for Sanders
1845 1846   Lock No. 1  
1879 1903   Locust  
1847 1851   Mill Creek  
1807 1838   Port William  
1844 1957   Prestonville  
1851 1873   Sandefers Store  
1884     Sanders  
1882 1903   Tandy  
1880 1893   Wideawake (Prestonville)
1847     Worthville  
 
 
 
This data has been compiled from Patera & Gallagher's A Checklist of Kentucky Post Offices.  Keep in mind that some of these town names are the same town, with a changed name.  Port William and Carrollton, for instance, are both listed.  Also keep in mind many - not all - of the "post offices" were nothing more elaborate than a nook in a country store, or a stage coach or railroad stop.