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2 Massachusetts Ave., N.E. Washington, DC 20002
Our entrance is on the corner of First Street and Massachusetts Avenue NE.
The US Board of Geographic Names issues a report recommending that the names of post offices be simplified by combining multiple word names into a single word.
After his plane catches fire in flight, airmail pilot Stanhope Boggs makes a forced landing on a San Francisco city street. He escapes unharmed.
Utah is admitted as the 45th state. Utah was commemorated on a stamp in 1947.
Mail clerk J.C. Edgerton is fatally injured and two other clerks seriously injured when their Grafton & Cincinnati train collided with a freight train at Schooleys, Ohio.
Horse and wagon city service finally ends in Philadelphia. It had continued there on the narrow city streets.
John T. Jackson, Sr. retires as postmaster of Alanthus, Virginia after 49 years of service. Jackson was one of the longest-serving African-American postmasters in the country.
Airmail pilot Eugene Cecil is killed when his plane is demolished during a forced landing. He was flying from Cleveland to Pittsburgh for Clifford Ball Lines.
Baseball legend Jack Roosevelt “Jackie" Robinson is born in Cairo, Georgia. Jackie Robinson was commemorated on stamps in 1982, 1998 and 2000.
Hugh Finlay replaces Benjamin Franklin as Postmaster General for the North American crown colonies.
Charlie Biederman donates his handcrafted 1922 dog sled to the museum. Biederman and his father used the sled to carry mail between Circle and Eagle, Alaska.