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HISTORY OF THE HAMMONTON POST OFFICE ~ Doug D’Avino The post office was dedicated in a formal ceremony on July 8, 1939, as shown by the dedication cover in Figure 13. Postmaster Adams served until her 1965 retirement. Fig. 11: Postmaster Irma M. Adams was in the position for 30 years and was postmaster at the time of the building dedication. Fig. 12: The Hammonton post office, the first new Federal office to be erected in Atlantic County outside of Atlantic City, was dedicated July 8, 1939. The building still serves as Hammonton's post office. NJPH 30 Vol. 40/No. 1 Feb 2012 Whole No. 185
Doug D’Avino ~ HISTORY OF THE HAMMONTON POST OFFICE Fig. 13: Cover postmarked July 8, 1939, from the dedication of the Hammonton post office. In the over 70 years since the building was dedicated, four additional postmasters have served Hammonton: Walter H. Shilleto, Henry B. Lewandowski, Joseph M. Delio, and John P. Glenn. And the building at the corner of Third and Peach Streets is still Hammonton's post office. REFERENCES & ENDNOTES: David M. Adams, "A History of the Hammonton Post Office," Dedication of the Post Office, Hammonton, New Jersey, July the Eighth, Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-Nine. "Elvins Corner, Hammonton, N.J.," The McClintock Letter, Vol. 8, No. 2 (May 2008), pg. 4, http://www.sjpostcard.com/PAGES/ARCHIVES.htm . South-Jersey Republican, Vol. 28, No. 24, June 14, 1890, Pg. 5, http://www.atlanticlibrary.org/newspapers/sjrepublican/SJR06141890.pdf . H.W. Wilbur and W.B. Hand, "Town Of Hammonton With An Account Of Its Soil, Climate And Industries," The Mirror Steam printing House, Hammonton, NJ, 1889, pg. 12 - 17. 1 Adams document indicates the first postmaster as Coffen, and later PMs as Coffin – it appears from National Archive records however that both first and later postmasters with this name were spelled Coffin. We have kept the text as the original, but the table spellings are according to National Archives records. 2 See above. 3 Both Smith & Kay and National Archives records show the original name spelled Decosta (1857-1893). It was reestablished in 1905 as DaCosta, until its discontinuance in 1915. Vol. 40/No. 1 31 NJPH Whole No. 185 Feb 2012
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