Raleigh Post Office, Union Parish Louisiana

Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by T. D. Hudson, 8/2004


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Early Postmasters of Raleigh Post Office, Union Parish Louisiana
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SOURCE:
Records of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832 – September 30, 1971, located in the 
National Archives, identifed as Record Group 28, Microfilm Publication M841, 
Reels #51 & 52. 

T. D. Hudson transcribed this information from the original records and donated 
it to the Union Parish Archives in August 2004. 

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RALEIGH POST OFFICE ESTABLISHED:
    13 November 1883


HISTORY OF RALEIGH POST OFFICE:
    Discontinued 20 February 1885, mail forwarded to Marion


POSTMASTERS:

Henry T. White, 13 Nov 1883 - 19 Feb 1885 

     [Office discontinued 20 Feb 1885, with mail forwarded to Marion.]


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COMMENTS:

I do not know the precise location of this office, but the journals of the Postal 
Service indicated that it was a few miles west of Cecil, somewhere in Township 23 North 
Range 2 East. Postmaster Henry T. White was the son of James T. White, who was the 
founding postmaster of the Midway Post Office in Union Parish during the early 1860s. 
I am somewhat uncertain of the precise location of Midway, but presumably it was 
located near the home of the second postmaster, D. A. Cook, a short distance east 
of Truxno. The postal journals indicate Raleigh was some distance east of Midway.


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