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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.
Hawaiian stamps are removed from service.
Thieves stop and rob the mail stage south of Houston, Idaho. William B. Marsh is later convicted of the crime.
A mail stagecoach is robbed three miles from Little Lake, California.
The first night game is played at Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox. Stamps honoring Fenway Park and nine other baseball fields are issued in 2001.
Steamboat "Pennsylvania's" boilers explode, destroying the ship and killing 159. Steamers carried mail on American waterways through the first half of the 19th century.
Joseph Warren, an American patriot, writes a letter to the Rhode Island Colony. The letter is in the museum's collections.
The four Newton brothers rob the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway post office train of $3 million in registered mail (which included cash and jewelry).
John Stanford, after serving four years for robbing a post office, robs the post office at Reeds Ferry, New Hampshire upon his release.
Philatelic dealer Roger G. Weill is born.
The Brooklyn, New York postmaster contracts with the Atlantic Avenue Railroad to carry mail in special white mail streetcars from the mail post office to Union depot.