United States
Cover Postmarked "Smallest Post Office Building in the U.S.A."
Cover Postmarked "Smallest Post Office Building in the U.S.A."
The post office in Ochopee, Florida was established in on August 22, 1932 with James Franklin Jaudon as its first post master. The original location was in the Gaunt Tomato Company general store but when that building burned down in 1953, the post master began storing and sorting mail in an old irrigation pipe storage shed belonging to the tomato company. With room for one client and one clerk, the tiny facility seems to have displaced the one in Tomato, Arkansas as the smallest post office in the United States.
Ochopee Post Office in February 2016
Historical Plaque for Ochopee Post Office
Bibliography
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https://webpmt.usps.gov/pmt011.cfm?stat_state_name=FLORIDA.
