Post Offices and Coal Mine Rail Postal Drops

1851 mail route through Pike – 8991 – from Vincennes at 4am, Thursday by Petersburgh, Winslow, Angostura, and Lynnville to Boonville, by 12pm next day, 54 miles and back between 1pm, Friday and 10pm next day.

During Pike County’s coal mine boom days mines had rail postal and shipping drops. These are listed as *coal mine RR drop.

1904 Pike County Rural Routes Map

1910 Pike County Rural Routes Map

Clay Township

Harvey’s Creek 1837 to 1838

Oliphant 1890 to 1903

Union 1845 to 1955

  • 1846 Union Postmaster Vincent T. West
  • 1850 Union Postmaster Thomas Hornbrook
  • 1857 Union Postmaster George Chambers
  • 1868 Union Postmaster John Kime

Jefferson Township

Algiers 1885 to 1995

Delectable Hill 1838 to 1885

  • 1850 Delectable Hill Postmaster John Stubblefield
  • 1857 Delectable Hill Postmaster James F. Alexander
  • 1866 Delectable Hill Postmaster John Stubblefield
  • 1868 Delectable Hill Postmaster John Stubblefield

Cato 1894 to 1903

Highbanks 1819 to 1859

  • 1857 Highbanks Postmaster Robert Logan

Iva 1893 to 1901

*Iva 1917 Coal mine RR drop

Otwell 1864 to present

  • 1866 Otwell Postmaster Thomas N. Lownsdale
  • 1868 Otwell Postmaster T.N. Lownsdale

White Oak Grove 1844 to 1864

  • 1858 White Oak Grove Postmaster James Scanland

Lockhart Township

Augusta 1874 to 1920

Cabel 1898 to 1903

*Cabel siding 1917 Coal mine RR drop

*Hartwell & HartwellJunction siding 1917 Coal mine RR drop

Leoti 1867 to 1874

  • 1867 Leoti Postmaster Temple Woolsey
  • 1868 Leoti Postmaster Temple Woolsey

Pikeville 1867 to 1938

  • 1868 Pikeville Postmaster Hiram Williams

Stendal 1873 to present

  • 1920 Stendal Postmaster Hugo L. Hartke

Zoar 1900 to 1907

Logan Township

Coats Springs 1874 to 1903

*Coats Springs siding 1917 Coal mine RR drop

Gladish 1887 to 1889

*Gladish 1889 Coal mine RR drop

Hawthorns Mill 1855 to 1869

  • 1857 Hawthorns Mill Postmaster Robert P. Hawthorn
  • 1866 Hawthorns Mill Postmaster R.P. Hawthorn
  • 1868 Hawthorns Mill Postmaster John T. Smith

Oatsville 1876 to 1903

*Oatsville 1917 Coal mine RR drop

Rumble 1888 to 1902

*Rumble siding 1917 Coal mine RR drop

West Saratoga Springs 1878 to ?

Madison Township

Bowman 1888 to 1901

Kinderhook 1851 to 1858

  • 1857 Kinderhook Postmaster John Rhodes

Marion Township

Fidelity 1871 to 1884

Noxid 1886 to 1907

*Noxid 1917 Coal mine RR drop

Survant 1883 to 1903

*Iron Bridge 1889 Coal mine RR drop

  • 1895 Survant Postmaster John Survant

Velpen 1881 to present

Monroe Township

Angosturia 1848 to 1852

  • 1850 Angosturia Postmaster John P Sethman

Claybank 1892 to 1895

Coe 1896 to 1907

Iola 1888 to 1889

LeMasterville 1888 to 1896

Spurgeon 1867 to present

  • 1868 Spurgeon Postmaster John J. Fleenor

Patoka Township

*Aberdeen siding 1917 Coal mine RR drop

Arthur 1873 to 1903

*Arthur 1917 Coal mine RR drop

Ayrshire 1886 to 1917

*Ayrshire 1889 Coal mine RR drop

Glezen 1883 to 1965

*Goldthwait 1883 Coal Mine RR drop

*Goldthwait 1889 Coal mine RR drop

*Goldthwait 1917 Coal mine RR drop

Hosmer 1870 to 1873

*Hosmer 1917 Coal mine RR drop

*Hosmer Siding 1922 Coal mine RR drop

Ingleton 1882 to 1885

*Jaxon siding 1917 Coal mine RR drop

*Jaxon siding 1922 Coal mine RR drop

Littles 1890 to 1929

Muren 1905 to 1910

Sophia 1897 to 1905

Whitman 1885 to 1889

*Whitman 1883 Coal mine RR drop

Winslow 1839 to present

  • Winslow 1839 Postmaster George Dean 12/23/1839
  • Winslow 1846 Postmaster George Dean
  • Winslow 1850 Postmaster George Dean
  • Winslow 1853 Postmaster George B. Montgomery 05/16/1853
  • Winslow 1854 Postmaster Daniel Crow 12/06/1854
  • Winslow 1857 Postmaster Albert W. Bee 04/27/1857
  • Winslow 1865 Postmaster Andrew J. Wells 04/08/1865
  • Winslow 1866 Postmaster Andrew J. Wells
  • Winslow 1868 Postmaster Andrew J. Wells
  • Winslow 1869 Postmaster Charles H. Bee 10/26/1869
  • Winslow 1872 Postmaster Francis T. Thomas 06/14/1872
  • Winslow 1873 Postmaster John J. Wells 01/16/1873
  • Winslow 1873 Postmaster N. Whitman 10/02/1873
  • Winslow 1874 Postmaster Alonzo Martin 07/02/1874
  • Winslow 1876 Postmaster Miss Florence Crow 10/30/1876
  • Winslow 1877 Postmaster Charles H. Bee 07/18/1877
  • Winslow 1884 Postmaster James N. Whitman 05/22/1884
  • Winslow 1884 Postmaster Robert O. Brown 07/11/1884
  • Winslow 1885 Postmaster John H. McConnell 04/28/1885
  • Winslow 1889 Postmaster John F. Thomas 04/08/1889
  • Winslow 1893Postmaster Joseph Fettinger 04/12/1893
  • Winslow 1896 Postmaster John H. McConnell 11/11/1896
  • Winslow 1898 Postmaster John F. Thomas 01/11/1898
  • Winslow 1905 Postmaster Elmer W. Rust 09/27/1905
  • Winslow 1915 Postmaster William J. Richardson 05/13/1915
  • Winslow 1924 Postmaster Leroy Dearing 02/08/1924
  • Winslow 1928 Postmaster Pearl B. McCord 05/26/1928
  • Winslow 1936 Postmaster James D. Arnold 07/13/1936
  • Winslow 1954 Acting Postmaster Thaddeus Preston Potter 12/31/1954
  • Winslow 1956 Postmaster Evart Julian 07/20/1956
  • Winslow 1970 Officer in Charge Clayton E. Curtis 04/03/1970
  • Winslow 1971 Clayton E. Curtis Postmaster 06/30/1971
  • Winslow 1984 Cheryl E. Ellerman Officer-In-Charge 06/01/1984
  • Winslow 1984 Marcia M. Curtis Postmaster 08/18/1984
  • Winslow 1990 Diana S. Horral Officer-In-Charge 07/28/1990
  • Winslow 1990 Kimberly K. Doty Postmaster 08/25/1990
  • Winslow 1995 Bonnie Bottoms Officer-In-Charge 12/28/1995
  • Winslow 1996 Joan M. Schatz Postmaster 02/17/1996
  • Winslow 1996 Amanda Potts Officer-In-Charge 11/26/1996
  • Winslow 1997 Dannie L. O’Dell Officer-In-Charge 01/23/1997
  • Winslow 1997 Dannie L. O’Dell Postmaster 05/24/1997
  • Winslow 2001 Kimberly R. Voegerl Officer-In-Charge 09/27/2001
  • Winslow 2002 Brandan L. Brosmer Postmaster 05/18/2002
  • Winslow 2003 Debra K. Lamb Officer-In-Charge 01/02/2003
  • Winslow 2004 Cheryl L. Hill Postmaster 01/24/2004
  • Winslow 2006 Lucinda L. Schlachter Officer-In-Charge 02/27/2006
  • Winslow 2006 Carolyn Mullen Postmaster 05/13/2006
  • Winslow 2009 Christopher N. Fischer Officer-In-Charge 10/08/2009
  • Winslow 2009 Cheryl L. Greenwell Officer-In-Charge 11/30/2009
  • Winslow 2010 Wallace G. Schaaf Jr. Officer-In-Charge 02/17/2010
  • Winslow 2010 Amanda A. Potts Officer-In-Charge 06/03/2010
  • Winslow 2010 Rebecca S. Ash Officer-In-Charge 11/04/2010
  • Winslow 2011 Linda D. Miller Officer-In-Charge 08/26/2011
  • Winslow 2012 Amanda A. Potts Officer-In-Charge 07/25/2012
  • Winslow 2013 Debra K. Lamb Officer-In-Charge 08/13/2013
  • Winslow 2014 Amanda A. Potts Postmaster 10/04/2014

Washington Township

Blackburn 1898 – 1899

*Blackburn 1917 Coal mine RR drop

Blackburn Station 1885 to 1894

*Glassworks 1917 Coal mine RR drop

Petersburgh 1823 to 1885

  • 1846 Petersburgh Postmaster William Hawthorn
  • 1850 Petersburgh Postmaster Warner L. Scott
  • 1857 Petersburgh Postmaster James B. Hendricks
  • 1866 Petersburgh Postmaster Darwin Hewins
  • 1868 Petersburgh Postmaster John W. Patterson

Petersburg 1885 to present

*Rogers 1889 Coal mine RR drop

*Rogers 1917 Coal mine RR drop

Where is :

Clayband 1900 to 1905

Dickson 1858 to 1858

Happy 1893 to 1895

*Hedden 1889 Coal mine RR drop

*Clark 1889 Coal mine RR drop

*Houchins siding 1922 Coal mine RR drop

*Gladstone siding 1922 Coal mine RR drop

*Fox Hill siding 1922 Coal mine RR drop

*Hillside Mine 1917 Coal mine RR drop