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The main United States Post Office in Eugene, Oregon, is a 2-story Art Deco building designed by Gilbert Stanley Underwood and constructed in 1939. The front facade features blue and cream colored terracotta with black and buff colored accents, and pilasters separate multicolored window bays.
Rainier was incorporated in 1881. [5] For much of the last quarter of the twentieth century, Rainier was known to the rest of Oregon as home to Trojan Nuclear Power Plant, the only commercial nuclear reactor in the state, which supplied electricity to Portland and its suburbs starting in March 1976. The reactor was closed periodically due to ...
The United States Post Office building in Scappoose, Oregon, is the current post office serving the local community (as of 2016) and a recognized historic structure. Built in 1966, it is an essentially intact example of the "Thousand Series" facilities [ a ] built under the direction of the Post Office Department in the late 1950s and the 1960s.
The U.S. Post Office is a post office building in Roseburg, Oregon, in the United States. It was constructed in 1916 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 18, 1979. See also
Oregon Territory centennial U.S. stamp, issued in 1936. The postal history of Oregon began in 1847, a year before the Oregon Territory was established, when the United States Post Office contracted delivery of postal items from the east coast of the United States to west coast locations via Panama. Post offices in Astoria and Oregon City were ...
The term "post-office" [3] has been in use since the 1650s, [4] shortly after the legalisation of private mail services in England in 1635. [5] In early modern England, post riders—mounted couriers—were placed, or "posted", [6] every few hours along post roads at posting houses (also known as post houses) between major cities, or "post towns".
Pleasant Valley was a way station on the Place Toll Road in 1865, and later a freight station on the railroad in 1884. [3] [4] Early Oregon Trail settlers farmed in the area. [4] Pleasant Valley post office was established in 1868 and operated for only two months. [5] An office with the same name was established in 1890 and closed in 1962. [5]
Peel is an unincorporated community in Douglas County, Oregon, United States. [1] It is located about six miles southeast of Glide near the Little River. [2] Peel post office was established in 1888 and named for congressman Samuel W. Peel of Arkansas. [3] Peel is one of the few places in the American West named for a Confederate soldier. [4]