Rural Delivery Service - Rural Route Introduction

Rural Route Introduction

The following is a list of when the first rural route(s) were established in each state, along with the names of the Post Offices served.

State Post Office Date
Alabama Opelika 12/07/1896
Alaska Nome 05/10/1901
Arizona Tempe 11/24/1896
Arkansas Clarksville 10/19/1896
California Campbell 02/01/1897
Colorado Loveland 11/10/1896
Connecticut Branford, Guilford, Milford 06/01/1898
Delaware Harrington 10/03/1898
District of Columbia Anacostia, Bennings 09/01/1902
Florida Winterpark 01/01/1898
Georgia Quitman 12/08/1896
Hawaii Haiku 03/01/1918
Idaho Moscow 04/14/1900
Illinois Auburn 12/10/1896
Indiana Hartsville, Hope 10/15/1896
Iowa Morning Sun 11/10/1896
Kansas Bonner Springs 10/26/1896
Kentucky Allensville 01/11/1897
Louisiana Thibodaux 11/01/1896
Maine Gorham, Naples, Sebago Lake 11/23/1896
Maryland Westminster 10/15/1896
Massachusetts Bernardston, Greenfield 11/02/1896
Michigan Climax 12/03/1896
Minnesota Farmington 01/01/1897
Mississippi Hickory 10/01/1901
Missouri Cairo 10/15/1896
Montana Billings 02/01/1902
Nebraska Tecumseh 11/07/1896
Nevada Lovelock 12/01/1903
New Hampshire Pittsfield 10/20/1898
New Jersey Moorestown 06/06/1898
New Mexico Roswell 03/01/1902
New York Elba 10/15/1896
North Carolina China Grove 10/23/1896
North Dakota Wahpeton 10/03/1898
Ohio Collinsville, Darrtown, Somerville 10/15/1896
Oklahoma Hennessey 08/15/1900
Oregon Turner 10/16/1897
Pennsylvania New Stanton, Ruffsdale 11/24/1896
Rhode Island South Portsmouth 01/01/1899
South Carolina Cope, Orangeburg, Saint George 03/01/1899
South Dakota Ellis 05/01/1899
Tennessee Atoka 01/11/1897
Texas Fate, La Grange 08/01/1899
Utah Murray 08/15/1899
Vermont Grand Isle 12/21/1896
Virginia Palmyra 10/22/1896
Washington North Yakima 04/01/1897
West Virginia Charles Town, Halltown, Uvilla 10/01/1896
Wisconsin Sun Prairie 11/16/1896
Wyoming Hilliard, Sheridan, Wheatland 10/15/1900

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Famous quotes containing the words rural, route and/or introduction:

    No, in your rural letter box
    I leave this note without a stamp
    To tell you it was just a tramp
    Who used your pasture for a camp.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    A route differs from a road not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it is merely a line that connects one point with another. A route has no meaning in itself; its meaning derives entirely from the two points that it connects. A road is a tribute to space. Every stretch of road has meaning in itself and invites us to stop. A route is the triumphant devaluation of space, which thanks to it has been reduced to a mere obstacle to human movement and a waste of time.
    Milan Kundera (b. 1929)

    Such is oftenest the young man’s introduction to the forest, and the most original part of himself. He goes thither at first as a hunter and fisher, until at last, if he has the seeds of a better life in him, he distinguishes his proper objects, as a poet or naturalist it may be, and leaves the gun and fish-pole behind. The mass of men are still and always young in this respect.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)