Ben Franklin Postage

ID: 336 ~ Creator: Photo courtesy of the U.S. Stamp Catalog and Identifier
This file appears in: Eastsound Post Office

Benjamin Franklin was the country's first postmaster general and appeared on the one-cent postage stamp from 1870 through 1881. These would have been in use when Charles Shattuck was the postmaster of Eastsound.

This file appears in: Eastsound Post Office

By Clairessa Walker
Today we may take post offices for granted, but soon after they were first instituted following the Revolutionary War, post offices often became the hubs of civilization on the American frontier. As post offices were few and far between settlers…