Kings County Post Offices: 1803-1890s






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Curtesy of David Roberts &  LI-Rooters@aplusdata.com List
 <a href="mailto:droberts@us.hsanet.net">droberts@us.hsanet.net</a>

"New York Postal History: The Post Offices & First Postmasters from 1775 to 1980" 
by John L. Kay & Chester M. Smith, Jr.
American Philatelic Society: 1982.

What strikes you right off is that the 1794 act which sets the modern
postal system into operation provided for NO post office in Kings County. I
would assume people in Kings county had to go to Manhattan to get their
mail or maybe those in the more easterly section to Jamaica. Actually, this
seems extremely odd. Granted Brooklyn wasn't all that big in 1794, but were
Coram or Bridgehampton any bigger or any more important? They had
postoffices in 1794.

1790's:
no post office in the county

1800's:
Brooklyn: 7/1/1803 to present

1810's:
Flatbush: 8/16/1814 to 2/28/1894; annexed to Brooklyn

1820's:
Williamsburgh: 2/10/1829 to 9/2/1873 when postoffice brought under
Brooklyn; spelling changed to Williamsburg in 1894.

List for 1829:
Town of Bushwick: Williamsburgh
Town of Brooklyn: Brooklyn
Town of Flatbush: Flatbush
Town of Flatlands: no post office
Town of Gravesend: no post office
Town of New Utrecht: no post office

people living in the last 3 Towns probably used the Flatbush postoffice for
their mail

1830's:
East New York: 1/23/1838 to 10/7/1886; annexed to Brooklyn
Fort Hamilton: 2/16/1833 to 4/30/1896; to Brooklyn
New Utrecht: 1/21/1839; name changed to Bath Beach 3/18/1886 [1895-1896:
Bathbeach]; to Brooklyn 4/30/1896

List for 1839:
Town of Bushwick: Williamsburgh
City of Brooklyn: Brooklyn
Town of Flatbush: East New York, Flatbush
Town of Flatlands: no post office
Town of Gravesend: no post office
Town of New Utrecht: Fort Hamilton, New Utrecht


Kings County Post Offices: 1840-1879
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 10:14:33 -0500


Postoffice expansion in the 1840's brought at least one postoffice to every
Town in Kings County. Bushwick divided in 1840 into Bushwick &
Williamsburgh Towns. Williamsburgh Town became the City of Williamsburgh in
1851. In 1854, both the City of Williamsburgh & the Town of Bushwick were
annexed to the City of Brooklyn. Flatbush was divided in 1852 into Flatbush
and New Lots Towns. 
After the 1850's, new postoffices were few.

New for the 1840's:
Flatlands: 1/10/1847 to 4/30/1896; to Brooklyn
Gravesend: 12/20/1845 to 4/30/1896; to Brooklyn
Green Point: 7/14/1849 to 9/2/1873; to Brooklyn

List for 1849:
Town of Bushwick: Green Point
Town of Williamsburgh: Williamsburgh
City of Brooklyn: Brooklyn
Town of Flatbush: East New York, Flatbush
Town of Flatlands: Flatlands
Town of Gravesend: Gravesend
Town of New Utrecht: Fort Hamilton, New Utrecht

New for the 1850's:
Bay Ridge: 1/21/1858-10/12/1860; 1/21/1862 to 4/30/1896; to Brooklyn
[1895-96: Bayridge]
Canarsie: 9/29/1852 - 10/11/1859; 3/18/1863 to 4/30/1896; to Brooklyn
Cresco: 5/24/1854; name changed to Parkville 5/1/1868 to 4/30/1896; to
Brooklyn

List for 1859:
City of Brooklyn: Brooklyn, Green Point, Williamsburgh
Town of Flatbush: Cresco, Flatbush
Town of New Lots: East New York
Town of Flatlands: Canarsie, Flatlands
Town of Gravesend: Gravesend
Town of New Utrecht: Bay Ridge, Fort Hamilton, New Utrecht

New for the 1860's & 1870's:
Parkville ... name change from Cresco 8/1/1868
so 1869 list is the same as 1859, except Parkville replaces Cresco

Brighton Beach: 7/23/1878 to 10/13/1879

List for 1879:
City of Brooklyn: Brooklyn
Town of Flatbush: Flatbush, Parkville
Town of New Lots: East New York
Town of Flatlands: Canarsie, Flatlands
Town of Gravesend: Brighton Beach, Gravesend
Town of New Utrecht: Bay Ridge, Fort Hamilton, New Utrecht

In 1886, the Town of New Lots was annexed to Brooklyn.
In 1894 the City of Brooklyn annexed the Towns of Flatbush, 
New Utrecht & Gravesend. 
The last independent Town in Kings County was Flatlands from 
1894 to 1896 when it too was annexed to the city of Brooklyn, 
making the City of Brooklyn = in land mass to Kings County. 
Thus the closures of the various independent
post offices in Kings County in the mid 1890's, making them stations of Brooklyn.


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