Essays on Sussex County and New Jersey Postal History

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF SUSSEX POs ~ Len PeckA number of post offices, as cited, were opened and closed, then reopened again at a laterdate. In order not to double-list a post office closing, we have used the term DPO [dead ordiscontinued post office] only when there are no further listings of that post office. Using thisdefinition of a DPO, there are a total of 65 DPOs in Sussex County.Here is a list of the 25 post offices currently active in Sussex County.Table 4: ACTIVE POST OFFICES IN SUSSEX COUNTY IN 2008PO Name Zip code PO Name Zip codeAndover 07821 Middleville 07855Augusta 07822 Newton 07860Branchville 07826 Ogdensburg 07439Franklin 07416 Sparta 07871Glasser 07837 Stanhope 07874Glenwood 07418 Stillwater 07975Greendell 07839 Stockholm 07460Hamburg 07419 Sussex 07461Highland Lakes 07422 Swartswood 07877Hopatcong 07843 Tranquility 07879Lafayette 07848 Vernon 07462Layton 07851 Wallpack Center 07881McAfee 07428ENDNOTES:1 Snell, James P., History of Sussex & Warren Counties, New Jersey, Harmony Press, Harmony NJ, 1981, theCentennial Edition a reprint of the original 1881 edition, in two volumes, Sussex and Warren. This text is onpage 17 of the Sussex volume; it is reprinted on page 149, with “Great Bend” instead of “Great Pond” – an errorwhich may or may not have occurred in the original work as well.2 See Peck, Len, “Sussex Court House: Sussex County’s First Post Office”, in NJPH, Vol. 35 No. 4 Whole number168 , Nov 2007.3 These maps are from FamilyHistory101.com, a genealogical website which shows the changing borders of NJCounties from 1683 to 1928: http://www.familyhistory101.com/maps/nj_cf.html Oct. 13, 2008.4 Map from Rutgers Cartography web site, http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/HISTORICALMAPS/NJ_1795/index.htmOct. 11, 2008.5 Op cit., Peck, Len, “Sussex Court House, First Post Office in Sussex County,” NJPH, Vol. 35, No. 4, Whole No.168, p/ 211-212.6 This map is a 1923 Post Office Department route map, to which we have added the names of other post officeswhich no longer existed in 1923, to enable readers to see their locations.7 See Peck, Len “Rural Free Delivery,” in NJPH, Vol. 36 No. 2, Whole number 170, May 2008.NJPH 208Vol. 36/No. 4November 2008 Whole No. 17211