Over time, there have been over 24 differently named post offices in Trimble County.  Some of these are the result of a town changing its name; most are not.  The fact that a place had a post office should not be interpreted to mean it was actually a town, as you and I think of it today: it may well have been somebody’s general store, with a stack of mail on a shelf and a little box of stamps off to the side.  And in any given community, it may have changed location based on the politics of the most recent election.

The peak in Trimble County was in 1903-04, when there were 18 post offices open at the same time.  The consolidation between 1904 and 1910, however, was rapid.  By 1910, there were only seven post offices left: Bedford, Corn Creek, Hisle, Jennings, Leeport, Milton, and Monitor.

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, Bedford is listed, Milton is not.

Here’s a chart that will give you a vague idea of how many post offices were open in any given year between the first (Bedford, 1818) and now.