New Jersey DPO WORD PUZZLES

New Jersey

DPO WORD PUZZLES

Post Offices of Yesteryear

Cover: Typical post office in NJ small towns, located in the local store. This one is Cherryville, NJ – post card scan courtesy Jim Walker

GEORGE WASHINGTON SLEPT HERE!

Letter sent from George Washington at Morristown NJ to the President of the State of Pennsylvania.

FOREWORD

New Jersey is a unique state – long in history and full of possibilities. It has existed from Colonial times, and has been a crossroads between New York City to Philadelphia from that time. The Post has crisscrossed it for all that time, from towns that existed than and perhaps no longer exist now – the perfect place for Discontinued or “Dead” post offices.

We have represented these by county, and have in some cases chosen only one post office to represent an entire county, to illustrate the nature of these post offices.

A look at New Jersey’s “DPOs” is a look at New Jersey’s history.

THE CAPITAL QUESTION!

For Starters, what is the Capital of New Jersey?

This is a question not easily answered in a few words.

Trenton was made the Capital of New Jersey in 1790 – then in Hunterdon County. What was it before that?

Perhaps it is better to start at the beginning: New Jersey’s first Capital was Elizabethtown (now simply Elizabeth), so declared in 1668, when New Jersey was a proprietorship.

Then the proprietorship of New Jersey was split (in 1674) in two proprietorships – East and West Jersey, often referred to as “The Jerseys.” The Capital of East Jersey was moved to Perth Amboy (then just Amboy) in 1683. Burlington, founded in 1677, was named Capital of West Jersey in 1681.

In 1702, these two proprietorships were combined into one Crown Colony, but the two Capitals were maintained until the Revolutionary War, with the Governor sharing his time between each.

During the Revolution, and until 1790, the State Legislature met in Princeton – a point somewhat midway between the two Capitals. Although not actually named as Capital, Princeton certainly functioned as such during the Revolution. New Jersey became a State on December 18, 1787, and Trenton was declared the official Capital on November 25, 1790, replacing Perth Amboy and Burlington.

With the formation of Mercer County in 1838, Trenton, which had been in Hunterdon County, was now located in Mercer County – as it still is today.

Thanks to NJPHS member Ed Siskin for help with this information. Additional information also found on the web site, NJ History’s Mysteries at http://www.njhm.com/ with a specific article at http://www.njhm.com/statecapitals.htm.

ii Get to know New Jersey!

Word Puzzles of New Jersey DPO Post Offices PAGE Foreword i The Capital Question! ii NJ Map 2 What is a DPO anyway? 3 A few words about county formation in New Jersey 4

Date formed Atlantic County 1837-02-07 8 Bergen County 1683-03-01 10 Burlington County 1694-05-17 12 Camden County 1844-03-13 14 Cape May County 1692-11-12 16 Cumberland County 1748-01-19 18 Essex County 1683-03-01 20 Gloucester County 1686-05-28 22 Hudson County 1840-02-22 24 Hunterdon County 1714-03-13 26 Mercer County 1838-02-22 28 Middlesex County 1683-03-01 30 Monmouth County 1683-03-01 32 Morris County 1739-03-15 34 Ocean County 1850-02-15 36 Passaic County 1837-02-07 38 Salem County 1694-05-17 40 Somerset County 1688-05-00 42 Sussex County 1753-05-16 44 Union County 1857-03-19 46 Warren County 1824-11-20 48 18th Century NJ POs* 50 NJ Summer Post Offices 52 Solutions 54 *These are not necessarily DPOs – just NJ’s oldest post offices ~ those existing between the Revolution and the turn of the 19th Century in 1801.

NEW JERSEY, SHOWING PRESENT COUNTIES

2 WHAT IS A DPO?

D[ead] P[ost] Offices Or sometimes D[iscontinued] Post Offices:

Any post office – once there – but no longer in existence.

If you live in New Jersey, you will be familiar with the many little towns that once existed in earlier times but have since been either bypassed as road and traffic changed, or industries once necessary were no longer needed, or simply, towns that have long since been absorbed into larger communities as the State became more urbanized.

Two major things changed in the postal system that made these post offices disappear. In the early 1900s, the Rural Free Delivery system was established, thus creating post offices with rural routes – so one post office now covered a much larger area, by delivering and picking up mail along the arms of these routes. It was no longer necessary to have a post office in every community. The names of the towns sometimes have continued, but in most cases, the post office names have “died.”

In more urban areas, as cities grew in size, they often developed branch offices of a central main post office. Many of these branch post offices had once been separate post offices with their own names – now they became part of a larger entity, and lost their own identity in many cases. In these cases, once could argue that these post offices are not dead, but reborn with a new name [Newark Station A however loses much of the original flavor of Belleville] So these are also classified as “dead post offices.”

Lots of people collect these cancels, on stamps or more often on covers, as representative of the past and a token or souvenir of something that is now gone.

Brad Arch, a longtime – now deceased – member of the New Jersey Postal History Society, produced a small booklet listing these post offices that have been discontinued. It is a bible for NJ DPO collectors, and we have used it here to make some word puzzles – just for fun. So you can enjoy these puzzles just as puzzles, or you can use them to learn a little more about your county and the towns that were once served by the U.S. Post Office. Either way, enjoy them.

3 New Jersey County Formation

New Jersey, as a colony, was originally East and West Jersey, divided by a line drawn from a point in the NW along the Delaware River to a point on the Jersey shoreline near Little Egg Harbor.

New Jersey did not always have 21 counties. It began – as a colony – with only 4 in 1683 [Bergen, Essex, Middlesex, and Monmouth], soon to expand to 9 in 1694, with the addition of Gloucester, Cape May, Burlington and Salem in West Jersey, and Somerset in East Jersey. But it has evolved over time and here are the broad strokes:

1683 4 original counties 1694 4 becomes 9 1714 9 becomes 10 The original 4 counties, Bergen, In West Jersey, Gloucester was Essex, Middlesex & Monmouth in created in 1686; In East Jersey, In 1702, the two Jerseys ~ East and East Jersey, were established in Somerset was established in 1688. West ~ have consolidated. 1683. (This map shows Burlington Again in West Jersey, Cape May Hunterdon (in 1714) is added to the & Salem in West Jersey because County was formed in 1692, and others. . courts were established there in Burlington & Salem formally 1681.) became counties in 1694.

1739 10 becomes 11 1753 11 becomes 13 1824 13 becomes 14 In 1748, Cumberland is formed Sussex is divided to form Warren Morris County is formed in 1739, from parts of Salem. Sussex is County in 1824. (Note the northern from Hunterdon County. formed from parts of Morris in border with NY, redrawn in 1773.) 1753.

1838 14 becomes 17 1850 1857 20 becomes 21 In 1837, half of Gloucester Hudson (1840), Camden (1844) & becomes Atlantic. Passaic is The last county to be formed in New Ocean (1850) are carved out of formed from parts of Bergen & Jersey [so far!] was Union, cutting neighboring counties. Gloucester Morris, and in 1838, Mercer is Essex in half and taking a bit of has become but a shadow of its established, and includes the Middlesex in 1857. former self. Capital of Trenton.

So by 1857, New Jersey had all 21 of its current counties. Minor changes occurred after that ~ some shifts in territory occurred, barely noticeable on a map of this size, except for the notable change in Burlington County; the one country that still spanned the State from the Delaware River to the Atlantic Ocean lost its ocean access to Ocean County in 1891, ceding Little Egg Harbor Twp. To Ocean Co.

Otherwise this map has remained largely the same since that time.

1891 2009

These great maps are from http://www.mynewjerseygenealogy.com/index.htm#4 and http://www.familyhistory101.com/maps/nj_cf.html

5 Hence we end up with an historical list of New Jersey’s 21 counties, as follows:

County date formed from Bergen Co. 1683-03-01 East Jersey Essex Co. 1683-03-01 East Jersey Middlesex Co. 1683-03-01 East Jersey Monmouth Co. 1683-03-01 East Jersey Gloucester Co. 1686-05-28 Burlington Somerset Co. 1688-05-00 Middlesex Cape May Co. 1692-11-12 West Jersey Burlington Co. 1694-05-17 West Jersey Salem Co. 1694-05-17 West Jersey Hunterdon Co. 1714-03-13 Burlington & West Jersey Morris Co. 1739-03-15 Hunterdon Cumberland Co. 1748-01-19 Salem Sussex Co. 1753-05-16 Morris Warren Co. 1824-11-20 Sussex Atlantic Co. 1837-02-07 Gloucester Passaic Co. 1837-02-07 Bergen & Essex Mercer Co. 1838-02-22 Burlington, Hunterdon, & Middlesex Hudson Co. 1840-02-22 Bergen Camden Co. 1844-03-13 Gloucester Ocean Co. 1850-02-15 Monmouth Union Co. 1857-03-19 Essex & Middlesex

List courtesy Kay & Smith, New Jersey Postal History, Quarterman Publications, Lawrence, MA, 1977.

PUZZLES

New Jersey WORD PUZZLES

DPOs By County (Post Offices no longer in existence)

18th Century Post Offices (Post Offices that existed between the Revolution and 1800 ~ Our earliest post offices after becoming a State)

New Jersey Summer Post Offices (Post Offices that were open only part of the year – usually summer – in cottage communities. Some became full-time offices, some have been discontinued.)

Atlantic County Established Feb 7, 1837 Created from parts of Gloucester County County seat: May’s Landing

Last day of the Estelville Post Office

Estelville, in the Jersey Pine Barrens and a DPO, had a post office from 1850 to 1854, and again from 1862 to 1934. But its greater claim to fame is one of the possible origins of the famous Jersey Devil – a strange creature known to prowl (and fly about) – with a head of a horse and cloven hooves, a tail and wings, supposedly the 13th and cursed child. And that story explains why we now have the New Jersey Devils!

ATLANTIC COUNTY DPOs

L D L O U I J W B G P E L L I V L E T S E C Q Z G G D A U C M R Z L M C K E E C I T Y Y B R Y W G G U U Q R A G E U E E C A N R U F R E T S E C U O L G E I J Q D A C T L D L V B R S T E E L M A N V I L L E J J D F E E V O G L Y L G I D I W E Z C Y Z N O M A B M M B E U T M E S W I V I Q L M G N F A L O T A M A R E D S X L B Z A L T E V V V R S O O V E I A X Y Q K J I S E R E W A X X L A Y O G L E Z N U S E S S B Y V Y Z S R C P T O K V S Y M M C F L O N J U C L N C M S D Y C L E O H F O E O Z L N O L U U X Y B I F E O T O I E L K E F S X U D R A C A V U E H C V R I Q Q Y S F N O T C U Y F T W T A S Y Z N R T B W S F F A T B M I T X O J H O H E A X K R V L N D M H O L S P K M X G I Q B E F R I S N J D O G U I Z F I T H E N G L I S H C R E E K R C B S L H Q R H C L T Y N R P Z U Y S R C F L E V S O C S A R L A E V I O L A U G O C G K H O M F N H I B E Z O A P P P L N I W D E E B Z S H M M F P W X R D H K M J A P I R Z H I D G E Q R H K E E O I D K B N Q X A A T O B R H N I J E M I H R J I E D L A F J O Y Z N L J X W S C I X L A N W R T N T M C D A S S B L J E G R E S A H K H E A R J R G Z I N G S J C L E P I S E J A V Y U O L Q I L S F W C E S I K A S K A E A X X F E D W T L H L U I L N B B G A T M T O I S I P H S M D Q E C I I Z G C E E G O S H A N P M O W C G A M H T Z I C G D O B L Z U R T R O N T N E V S O P M Y S E C A N F B W W G M Y K U W Q B T G R R Z K R D F A L M M L N X F H N B O Y S D H V O P Q A T S I V A T N E U B D C P L O N G P O R T E Q B Q Z I M A R G A T E B R A Z I F P O W A S O U T H A T L A N T I C C I T Y Q D J I D Q M M

Look for these post offices: * Source: New Jersey DPOs by Brad Arch Absecom Decosta Jeffers Absecombe Durella Longport Smiths Landing Absecon Heights English Creek Margate Br South Atlantic City Amatol Estelville Mckee City Steelmanville Bakersville Folsom Nesco Ventnor Belcoville Gloucester Furnace Pleasant Mills Ventnor Br Buenta Vista Gloucester Springs Pomerania Viola Cedar Lake Gravelly Landing Risley Weymouth Chelsea Sta Hawkins Rosedale Da Costa Idelwood Scullville

Bergen County Established March 1, 1683 (one of our four original counties) Created from parts of East Jersey County seat: Hackensack

Last day of Campgaw October 31, 1951, and first day Franklin Lakes, November 1, 1951*

Some DPOs are simply post office name changes – perhaps you didn’t know that your town had a different name at some earlier time. Such is the case with Campgaw, which was the name of the Bergen post office in the northeast hills of New Jersey now known as Franklin Lakes, a still current post office. Even though Franklin Lakes was incorporated in 1922, this post office did not take that name until 1951. So Campgaw -- a post office since 1898, became a DPO on October 31, 1951, and the next day, the Franklin Lakes post office was born. Some collectors enjoy collecting these “name changes” as they occur, and the post card above is a philatelic use, showing both the old name and the new one.

The name Campgaw is preserved in the Campgaw Reservation, a ski area and county park in Bergen County, and one-time site of Nike Base (1955-1971) on Campgaw Mountain.**

* Courtesy NJPHS member Paul Jackson ** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campgaw_Mountain

BERGEN COUNTY DPOs

L M W R I V E R V A L E Z X K I N D E R K A M A C K M U U L H A F H G R U B N E L A A R H C S J M C E J V A W M L T P E R V E L L I V N I W D O G O C J A I D J Z P A Z O U Z A W R W X F N W I C T T W L J H L L H Z F S E K Z Q T Y S S O E Q M V C P P H X X I J Y F N P Y F S A R C O L A E N K O N Z B R P C V E B O G O T A Z Y O D F V U F X K C N G A D P G P S K E E R F J Y Z P B N O O J U M K V J I Z G J C R O M T U I A T R F K W E M L S O H O E R A A S N U L Z K I I O E A F D M Y C N T F I O W R O C G X T F L G L I S V D N O A V Y O P H X V A H S H Z C D K B A T X K S R S E J G T N N X P P N I O S E H G P A F N B G R E Z R L E H S D E I A E G D Y Z L M E D I A M R X R J Z B L B A A U N B Z J A C C K G X T L L I H I P E K F L W S H A D P N E E N Y P R H K K W D I T E W O G J A T Z X H T B V M D D D I E F K B I B B C Z R K V M A X P V F R A N K L I N R Y O G W H E P E R B C O A N X W G G C E M L I N G S E M O S O H H J L P B Y Q F L G J E L L I V S E T Y O C U W M F F W B A R L D R C T E G B Q E D A S I L A P X C A Q N A R J E O M J I H U S E S K B I G Y J D O O W Y A M T F Q R E U L R B E V M E D J M D Y Y D R C A Q S L U U P E V H I H G G H U U R W N E Z X Y V V R Y N H I J H J U G F D J Y T X N O R A E U X T Y J O V B U O S U E K Y D N E T R O W U H E O G Q D O U N W K M X A R E K M R G N O R D H O F F R P H D H K U O X A B E E B O X C N Y A B R K M P R S U K G C T L C N A U F K S D W C C N F O W A O J G O W S R J R V W R I K I L P Q G O J A C U F U L E O N I A H E I G H T S E O Q L Y P L N L V O N E W O F L L I H N O T L R A C U P K N M H J R I I H A S B R O U C K H E I G H T S C F L K Y S I Z X X Z J V M E E R E M E S R O M C Q J W K Q T V F H Z T V N

Look for the following post offices: * Source: New Jersey DPOs by Brad Arch Arcola Franklin Moonachie Br River Vale Bogota Godwinville Morsemere Rutherford Park Campgaw Hasbrouck Heights Neuvy Schraalenburgh Carlton Hill Highwood New Hamburgh Teaneck Br Cherry Hill Kinderkamack Nordhoff Valetta Corona Kingsland North Englewood Warren Point Coytesville Leonia Heights Oweno West Fort Lee Dundee Lake Lingsem Palisade Wood Ridge English Neighborhood Lodex Br Paskack Wortendyke Etna Maywood Plauderville Zingsem

Burlington County Established May 17, 1694 Created from West Jersey (one of our earliest counties, with courts as early as 1681) County seat: Mount Holly

Manuscript Indian Mills cancel on an 1879 cover to Lumberton, NJ.

A 1918 Indian Mills cancel on a post card* One-time location of the Indian Mills PO, now a pizza shop.

Every post office has a story. Indian Mills was the site of the first Native American Reservation established in colonial North America. In 1758 the Lenape Indian Nation was granted a home here. The reservation was first called Brotherton and was later known as Edgepillock. By 1801, the vast majority of Indians living here had migrated to land in New York State, leaving the small village we now know as Indian Mills behind them. A post office was established here in 1849, called Shamong. This office was discontinued January 22, 1856.

Edward Thompson, Indian Mills’ second postmaster, in his application to re-open the post office, stated that the population to be served by this office was 400 persons. Not more than 50 persons lived in this vicinity in 1877.

* Illustrations & information courtesy NJPHS member Jack Edge

• BURLINGTON COUNTY DPOs

D U G M K C I W N A T S W H N O C I M D H H G Z O M V Z S X I N F K F D X R K Q C I A F H M I S I Y Q F U X A K L O K H X D Z R F H N I R Q N N M X F K J F S Q P P R Y M A Z N I J K W D D Q B R L D D O F Y N N U N F J A N N S O B S B I N N M D K Q U Z R Y C V F J B F U I L M I B C A N C A E R F K N J J B K A Q Z I E E U U A T S U B S U I E H O C O F R M O I C H R Z R Z P R D N I S G Z D L L D P X M O O Q K U I L R S Y I N C O A F Q N G L A D A A E D C S M C C L L I D O W A Y B B N E X A P W E L E K O C Y T V K M N N A Q T Q N P B J O Q A B N R K W R I S T B K Y O B R F A A T Z L X G T S A V O M U S M A J A M E Y T H O W Q O L L C N Y A I B T J T T Z S E Q S S F M W T R T O L N R W U E K E X N N E Q V T Y S U M L N H Z R E I U O R A Q O S O D Q I U D X A Z U Z F J T A L L W Q P N I R N S M F W S W E J R I C M C Y L H H P S O J T I I D F M Y V E S S Q A E H M O F V R H S N F Y W L P U Q M V Q E W A Q X E S O L R D G T D Q W A F H S K S Z E N X V N N A A Z H W W C R G N E P E D A J F V M A P L E Y B B X V D O D V Y S G T R N H M L B A S E H O S P I T A L B R W G D O S T L J E P B O M K O D T U R E L C A N R E B A T D R E C O A A O K V H N M N U O T S Z I S L L I M N A I D N I N E Q W M R V K E A V R A M B L E W O O D B R O Y F G X L D M O O T V K W T B H H U R T L C M L C C B E S K X J C V F D E R U E J Q X E N E O H X N K S F E Y H A R T F O R D R Q B X F Y H N L L Y D D O B B I N S F B J K W R E V I R G N I D A W T C N Q Q L R Q M P N G N O M A H S E V D N W O T S B O C A J O S R L L X Q X A C M P K V G R E E N B A N K V Z D F C E Y Z Q P O I N T V I L L E I L A H G G E L L I V S I R R A H E C G K I B L V M Q R B X I D P M A C N A N A H C U B X R L Y M Y O P T U R R U L E V I T T O W N C J T C W Q P S Q N S O Z C G G B V L Q I C U K N W O T S S E L K C E R S W Y B Z T M

Look for the following post offices: * Source: New Jersey DPOs by Brad Arch Ancocas Cinnaminson Hartford Oriental Base Hospital Br Delanco Indian Mills Paisley Bass River Hotel Dobbins Jacobstown Pointville Batsto Edgewater Park Kinkora Ramblewood Br Black Horse Estlow Lebanon Glass Works Recklesstown Bridgeboro Evesham Levittown Shamong Buchanan Fruitland Long Beach Sooys Inn Budd Town Green Bank Maple Stanwick Camp Dix Br Hanover Farms Masonville Tabernacle Chetwood Harrisville New Mills Wading River

Camden County Established March 13, 1844 Created from parts of Gloucester County (a late addition) County seat: Camden

A Snowhill cancel on a post card dated July 15, 1907.

Snow Hill is an interesting community, The area to become known as Snow Hill and later Lawnside was originally settled by members of the Society of Friends under grants from the West Jersey proprietors, in what is now Cherry Hill township. Ralph Smith, a radical abolitionist Quaker, provided land to settle a number of slave families who had escaped from the Snow Hill, Maryland area via the Underground Railroad about 1840. The area had other African-descended residents already established, both slave and free. Peter Mott, a free black farmer, provided his home as a stop on the railroad. Ralph Smith sought to have the community known as Free Haven but the residents preferred Snow Hill.

On January 6 1893, the Post Office Department established a sub post office at Snow Hill, subordinate to Magnolia, a nearby town. The post office name was changed from Snow Hill to Snowhill (June 14, 1894), to conform to changes in nomenclature approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. The post office name changed to Lawnside, the name of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad station to the south of the community, and it was established as a third class office on October 8, 1907. The name “Snow Hill” (two words) was thus in existence for only a year and a half, and Snowhill for 13 years.*

The Lawnside post office serves the community that was once known as Snow Hill.

* Information and illustrations courtesy NJPHS member Gene Fricks.

CAMDEN COUNTY DPOs

A M E B Z I C K B A G M F L L I H S R E M A R C C P U D W C C E I I Z D E L L I SBURGUDDBZYTNY O H I BWA V R P F G S A V A V V J Z L N T Q I T Q I H U V L C K I W L W H J E M O Q D I X C P E V Z N O H T V C V E N L Z P M W W H A E R I A L N Y F F J L T O K J M R H E S E O I H U K V N I R U O D U T E T H G V A O V B J K L F R A H S N P T V X Y T O H L O R J K I U W E D Z N A L I K I K L G S G S D X C X E C L L J W R U C W D L N R E G V B A T T T J E S L O F D S H N I O W D Z A L I P L E Z P Y A L M N T P J R W L F R A G O A Q R E W M S R P H I L O Q T E C K Z K O Z K O I N E C N R X G O J O S N A S Z V G F O D V N O Q M G I S O M M R F I S Z K B C K A E M R N T Y D K W C C W M V H A Y D G N N R R E F A S G Y E P C O S N Y X N F G T Z O I N I U Z N O H V P R H N N T S I Q G A S A B V R A S O B C T N S L J I I V X S V U Y A Z X Q D E N Z H R M A T L L O S B D G J X R G Z M L A V L T Z U Q P O R N C C R R L U A L D J E O I V P Y P Q E F A K F M L W W H S I R H W G E L U I S I M T O R S K J E R I B A I Q N H N Q N D E V Q A N C E C L A N Q H W E E E J U S P O E N I O E H A J M T N A A I N Y C H K T N E K D E Y A H K R H L T P L A P I F C S S C W D M C E A D E O L C C W L H X L L L U E M F G P H H T L B S A N D L A D E N S S A U I O Q E R X R O Y N L O L O R H G E Z U A E U U E K T K S L C U R E T E K U L L R A N Z L V L R N J D L E B O I W R C C B S Q F Z H Z Y U T N O M T S E W C A N Q U S S V S U I P A T E F W A V G L N D N O J O L D X D F M E Z B W T G B O J J J X T X V T S R U H L I S E H C S V N S Z T P O E U H K E O U N O R T H C R A M E RSHI LLTTHOQTSN H T F UFT E N P E K K K D O O W S G N I L L O C T S E W N M C H N D X K N L K W H G L O U C E S T E R H E I G H T S R Z K B L T H J E E M L Y T F D R Q O D L O W N E D N I L J J R M R P T Z

Look for the following post offices: * Source: New Jersey DPOs by Brad Arch Ancora Ellisburg Lucaston Ashland Elm Marl City Audubon Erial Merchantville Bennett Erlton North Cramers Hill Bethel Fish House Oaklyn Blackwoodtown Glen Dale Pensauken Blue Anchor Gloucester Heights Snowhill Chesilhurst Good Intent Spring Mills Chews Landing Jackson Tansboro Collingswood Kresson Valley Club Cramers Hill Laurel Springs West Collingswood Dahlialand Lindenwold Westmont Delair Long A Coming White Horse Camden DPOs not in this puzzle: Chews Westmont Br Louden Ancora Br Erlton Br Woodlynne Br Wilton Cherry Mall Br West Collingswood Br Cherry Hill Br Woodlynne

Cape May County Established Nov 12, 1692 Created from West Jersey (an early county) County seat: Cape May Court House

A Townsend Inlet cancel on a post card, from the early 1900’s., named for the nearby inlet of the same name. Cape May County has the distinction of having 2(!) DPOs named Townsend Inlet - one of these is in Middle Township which existed from 1849 to 1896. It was renamed Swainton and existed under that name from 1896 to 1919. The other Townsends Inlet (with S) post office was on Ludlam Island from 1904 to 1970. It then became a branch of Sea Isle City. The post office Post card illustrations courtesy NJPHS member Doug D’Avino shown on this post card The same post card shows the post office, no longer in operation. is the second. While the name on the front indicates Townsend Inlet, the cancel is clearly Townsends Inlet. The date, although not complete, is 19__. Bridge across Townsend

Inlet.*

* Bridge photo from flickr.com/photos/44577877@N00/3078933358/. 16

CAPE MAY COUNTY DPOs

E O I X G W E G V T O W N S E N D S I N L E T R N D P E W W J I J T R T E F V Y Z B A O U G N I R P S D L O C X V P C D B A W G R U B S R E T E P H M G Z Y A M V W Z A K S G I X C V S K Y B E L D R E D G E E D U Y E L E B F P O H O Z E M W R C G Q E G P D D S A V D N E S N W O T S E H C Q Z X R M C Z B S Q E U J R B T C V Y P M N V G U E I V A Y J H X C G A G R A S S Y S O U N D B W T N R T E A S G E A U V U D E Y X D O W W L D Z S E V O R G A E S F V L Q B M X Z R W Q S X Z X X Y A E K E T S C P B E L X H I A U Y E O A V U P K S F N H L H I Y S S N E G T U E K C L N Y L P T O M A Z J W D X T Y D J N S F F O G T E R G O L D U L A P V Q R E O P L V U U R J A T P T M M X U P L V E J T O C U J Y Z E K V X G L G C C L H O O P U R V I X E E U K H T E P A L E R M O F I E E K R Y C N I P H E I D U I O H J S Z P P I R E C K D U I O D A O D A H N N E E U G A G V Y E Y B T J J Y S O T T E N S R H A L E L T O T P H C S H A W F I S H I N G C R E E K K E K O M S B O P I I J Z G K D W I L D W O O D C R E S T Y Z H F E K T R W G T H J Z C X E P W Y L E U F H P K X F W J D B T B T I A V U A W U V O O C E A N R E S T Y P Z E S X U K T H R J R D C Y T Q L F M N N B R E C H R Y G N A V E W H I K X I C G E S B S C L E R M O N T C M P I N P H Q V D R J L J R D N X C S B R P I L Z R V E E X T S W L H H G E Y C C P Z H G D U T Y J I Q V I T F J E B U D S M M U M O A B M P S I I E I B V C G A W D O G G K W I H J Q A D R I W K H M S C A P N Y O Y L J L X G R Q A E S E L G N A E V V G E L N R O P I F K B F J G A R B S K C A R R A B N O K C I H A S S I W V L D A X G J D V C D I K U T S R C Y E Q I N I A L P E L L E B C I I B W O A L P N Z I U Y E L D O R A Z R V U R C O Y Q L W X E D E N N I S C R E E K T M Z O Z T G P P B A K X D L S T T J V T T P Q J H D Z N B X F K J S B H B E E S L E Y S R F

Look for the following post offices: * Source: New Jersey DPOs by Brad Arch Anglesea Eldora Pierces Beesleys Eldredge Sea Grove Beesleys Point Erma: Seaville Belle Plain Fishing Creek Swainton Burleigh Grassy Sound Townsend Cape Island Holly Beach Townsends Inlet Cedar Beach Naval Air Station Tuckahoe Bridge Clermont Ocean Rest West Cape May Cold Spring Ottens White Dennis Creek: Palermo Wildwood Crest Dias Creek Peermont Wissahickon Barracks Br East Creek Petersburg

Cumberland County Established Jan 19, 1748 Created from parts of Salem

County seat: Bridgeton

Bivalve, NJ – once the center of a thriving oyster industry, is now a DPO – one of the many centers of industry, tourism, fishing, or agriculture which has passed from the scene. DPOs teach us a bit about these towns – why they existed, and why they no longer even have a post office. This post office existed for 82 years, from 1889 to 1971. In the 1950s and the 1960s, the area was plagued with an influx of MSX, a disease which decimated the shellfish population and the industry it spawned. Once that was gone, the town survives, but the post office is a thing of the past, unless some day the oysters can be restored.

Invoice from oysterman Bateman in 1928, the post office, photographed by A. Rothstein, and piles of shells.* * photo by dendroicablog at Flickr: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3375/3277128483_a919e7ab2b.jpg?v=0

CUMBERLAND COUNTY DPOs

X P D Z R K Q W N E T U H S K C U B V F V Z I K H G M A N U M U S K I N W U F I B E T J O A F E P O H B B S C Q K Z Q T C D W I D E T S U R O N A G G X Z Y I V F A U E T L A N D I S D T L G X W T V R R R M V V B H U V M U Y H E H B V G E R O O V O X H D D P J A E W S Z I V A R D R Q V D B Z T L S W S N H L R F L C N X Y J A W G Z D Y N R B D B F C N A Y A O U S V A O T L I H R G X B O U X L J F G F L J I A N F B E N T B F K I D X R M R B U T U M T E A C D M I Q A G R R V X F R O X R Y X O U R X Z N H R S Z A L G K I U E X S L C C O A U G M D B I I A E T N K U D N Q W F B W Y X D V B T O I O F Y V C M O I W R R P I I I D L V W N D - R Y X O N C H B M W M A O Y I X T E D N A T Z B L Q V K W H J T O O N L P D T I C H S W T A H X N E B B L R T P R N C Z U Z U W E C E B U I V L G P D T S E W N W O T E G D I R B C G L R J A N Q R Y B L X W O L Y N B G U Q A I U K R D A I B V G D E S A R H IT N O T S O B W E N F Z X Y I D V K K S Q B Y V X D N A L E N I V H T U O S X A R K E B J N Y M O Y S E A V I E W P W K X K R M P W B W R M Z E C U P M S R P K H D X O W S L L K O O R B A E S U C H C Z B Y IT H P X N O I T A T S Y E L N I F T S B K P S U F B R G I M A I N E A V E N U E S C C M H O H H Y M F W N B T Y E L E E S V F P M T O L L E H T O U N D E R W O O D H B D IT G D R A G S T O W N V F T D P L E M R A C C V A U C J E L L I V Y E L A H A Z

Look for the following post offices: * Source: New Jersey DPOs by Brad Arch Austin Ewings Neck North Vineland Bivalve Fantown Ormond Bridgetown Finley Station Othello Bridgetown West Gouldtown Roadstown Buckshuten Halberton Rusted Carmel Haleyville Sea View Caviar Landis Seabrook Commercial Maine Avenue Seeley Cumberland Furnace Manumuskin South Vineland Del-Bay Rur Br Maurice River Underwood Dragstown New Boston Woodruff

Essex Established March 1, 1683 County Created from East Jersey (one of the original four) County seat: Newark

New Jersey is the most densely populated state in the U.S., and areas that once were separate towns have long since merged with larger metropolitan areas. Essex is such an area, and many little towns have lost their separate identities. One like this was Watsessing, which is now absorbed into Bloomfield, but once had its own separate post office and town identity.

A target “killer” obliterating the stamp on this postal stationery envelope, circa 1885, from Watsessing, NJ.* * Illustration courtesy of Jim Forte Postal History sales at http://www.postalhistory.com/.

ESSEX COUNTY DPOs

P A X M E RT P N K BMI ZWATSESS I NG G R A OWD W H M W A T C H U N G S T A X F F N Y L E S O R A S J M I W X X E P A K S U H T H J M A R K E T S T R E E T S T A J F M S I L V E R L A K E W E S T O R A N G E R R S U J W S H T M X W W X L R B T R B E G N A R E L F I R Y V A N V O J A C K C Y L N U O E L M C C L E L L A N V D L U H Q R I D F Q P U V T H Q W P H C B I BKHHHCLPLHZWJR T N K FLM Y N I Q G V P J N T B P K S R O R A N G E D A L E E R Q E Y L I N R I C K E T I O U H T O I Q G Q P P H A H T T A K A Q Z O W V S B P J R E F O P X Z K U O Q S F E K E S S P I S B D P O J R N L J C M L D F N K A H L Q T W L G E A E N I A Y G N T R N B Z H K R O L K N H G T O N A I A W L E V A G N L G W P H R V W U P A K N I J U J D S U T L D C I N O T L T W B O M Z B T G C H N O B T V C I U J N J B N Z Z W R T F D H K T A X Y CU Q H O NRCCEUTACBUOKA O G A RAW H H C L L D V H I R K E O P L L G L H T S V R B T L H A L Z D T T I R L F W L E K H Z W H A L C L Z H A E E E X N N E D Y E A A E E Y A T V X N C U S F I E N Z T A K T G G A K E L F B B C T I H L O B DRNRWRYRBSSAPH D H M LSE N A A A S F J P N X Z F S R U Q T B C T E A A T I K X I V I S Z H D E RO Z X A VRRRHHKJNFBERO R R A N I F R I Q E W I Z U L G T Z S D Z Q C U U Z X A K W B A P Y V M X L F M J A Z K C D R K V T O Y T K E J D D V N C P H S Y O K E K Y J F U H K H R H O Z J L F L C H W W I G E Y K H A O I E Y S L G R U B S L I A V E P U B O I D R E Z F L N A X L X B N T E D N W H Q T D H Y A Z S J S X R C W Z C R N G U B X S G A J U N V Y H I N N O T G N I V R I B H Z P E Y T U T O G W S G X Y R B S C Q B C Q A Y L R E V A W C Q V H K O S T X H Z U K H K E C Q L F Y Q D Y E L L A V E G N A R O H E P R I C H I K W E L ADKOORBBUYYGKV J W C SPW

Look for the following post offices: * Source: New Jersey DPOs by Brad Arch Academy Sta Elizabethtown Point Nutley Watchung Sta. Ampere Fairfield Orange Valley Watsessing Avondale Franklin Orangedale Waverly Belleville Grovestend Parkview Waverly Park Brick Church Hilton Pleasantdale West Bloomfield Bridgetown East Irvington Roselyn West Orange Brookdale Manhattan Park Silver Lake Westerly Br Camptown Market Street Sta. Upper Montclair Wilbush East Nutley Mc Clellan Vailsburg Elizabethtown Navy Rifle Range Br Verona Essex DPOs not included in this puzzle: Belleville Sta Irvington Sta Nutley Sta West Orange Sta Fairfield Br Manhattan Park Orange Valley Sta

Gloucester County Established May 28, 1686 Created from parts of Burlington (an early county) County seat: Woodbury

Gloucester Furnace, a DPO from Gloucester County (1827-1837); with the formation of Atlantic county in 1837, it became a post office in that county, and closed in 1855. This cover, known as a stampless folded letter as it preceded the use of postage stamps, was used in 1834. Postage stamps were not authorized for use until 1847, and did not become mandatory until 1855. .

GLOUCESTER COUNTY DPOs

M V I I B J A N V I E R K P S Y D B A R G A I N T O W N V B Q S A T D N A F Q W R W A F L O H R T Z G E B U T Z Z F S V P G T J I W Y Z C G V O P I T M A N G R O V E V W S E M O B W J J L O Y H A I N E S G L A S S W O R K S A M U R R O X N O Z A J O N K E S V E G D I R B R E V I R O Y D R O B F D P S S N J J V P J U Q F S R O B Q O X X Q A W C E S R R V O X T B L A C K W O O D T E R R A C E X E N S R L Q C N O A W O N F A I I A S N M N W O T N O I Z R O J S L A F B O N N N O I V U L S E P T E F J R K L T Y A I R O T C I V S S A K E P O C K M W Q T V Y K T X Q U M N O S S E N O M L A R M I R U P R T L O W E R S O M E R S P O I N T T Z V L A G E L F D A E O U Q D H Z M N P N R E V A T S L L E B P M A C F A Q U P V S B R L M Z M U N Y L S T M N N K L W F O R M M F I C E E I S F M W N K W C F I S L E R V I L L E R L K U Y E N E C R F K C F G N I D N A L S R E T N E P R A C R I D Z J O E A P J E S W I L L O W G R O V E I K R V D R F A M S P K L W N A W Y T I H A R D I N G V I L L E B D W U T Z P A Y X O A R H Z S U F N V N F S O O P F A X U L K B A T I H E N V C N U E F O R E S T G R O V E A G N K R E F Z Y P N Q G C O R S F L X D N N L R D B I L O S T H D X S A G Z K A G T Z E J M H L E C E F O R W X B A R N S B O R O N D Q G M J U M C Z I T I I U R F F T B T Y C F E K R A M N E D W E N N F Q A Q L U V C T S M C Z E Q I E H Y R R E F S R E P O O C I P N V L O F E G V H I Z D L A H Z A C A B Z A K T Y R E L K O R V S M F T Y I B I P I B G M X Q T H W U P A D T X P E J G U U F Y R R L L P I C E G C A Z Q W E Y K D X C A E D T S F F T M E U U D L O E F Q E L T E N F Q S H F B N Z C S S R I A U V W H B D E C L F Z R A M O N S A N T O B R F Z Y S Q N N B Y B F H O L G R E A T E G G H A R B O R L N J A D G A U T C A U Z H P T Q S K R O W S S A L G N O S K C A J G E W B E M P W X

Look for the following post offices: * Source: New Jersey DPOs by Brad Arch Almonesson Coopers Ferry Great Egg Harbor New Denmark Aura Cross Keys Haines Glass Works Pitman Grove Bargaintown Downer Hardingville Repaupo Barnsboro Eagleton Hurffville River Bridge Bassett Etna Furnace Iona Salina Blackwood Terrace Ewans Mills Jackson Glass Works Turnersville Campbells Tavern Ferrell Janvier Victoria Carpenters Landing Fislerville Jefferson Weymouth Furnace Cecil Five Points Lower Somers Point Willow Grove Colonial Manor Br Forest Grove Monsanto Br Ziontown Gloucester DPOs not included in this puzzle: Absecomb Lansdle Stephens Creek Woodbury Heights Hurffville Rur Br Pineville Unionville

Hudson Established Feb 22, 1840 County Created from parts of Bergen New Jersey’s smallest county County seat: Jersey City

Two Hudson County DPOs – one from Hudson Heights and one from West Hoboken. The first in now part of North Bergen, and the second is now part of Union City.

Hudson County is one of the most heavily populated counties in a state with the densest population in the country. Individual towns have merged over time, and so have their post offices. West Hoboken existed as a separate post office from 1852-1925, when it became a part of the newly incorporated Union city. Hudson Heights, established in 1901, became a station in North Bergen in 1957. For a cancel collector, it is sad to see these “lost” communities become amalgamated into the somewhat generic larger post office names of today.

HUDSON COUNTY DPOs

J N A V A L S U P P L Y D E P O T S T A L I N K N V F Z A F B S Y X P S P K B R Z R S E C A U C U S B R L B C O Y H E M S W D O O D B X T G Y U N E L L I V N E E R G B V U U A V B U P A S Z I O F P V R C K L B X B O S U Y P E Z L D Y V L P R F F K V I C S M YHFUHRWNKTNDRU Y S C BENQ U V U V M Z O G R R K H N L Q E M H K H G Y L O M S B I A F A S W T P L N Z I O Z M X D L P E S A E D Y N L U E Z Z V I T I H P H K S S N Z N Y G U L I V A N W R E D L R P F P A K Y Q O Y S D T Y R P O Y K U H U D S O N H E I G H T S D L V C X M L A I A K O B V N E W D U R H A M E S F P G P S A S G I K E B E S B M V U Z J C G B A T S E T T E Y A F A L H U C G H S A Z N L S D B E R G E N A V E N U E S T A Q W A T P N Z W T M C P E U I Z A T J O M Z U C U R F N S S B J T C P V C E E A C H H W I L X O E P S O B G S S E L Y W O E R E L L O A A H T E O C Q G C T E R M I N A L S T A C M N B H I Y S E A D C Q W O W C N X E L L I V S R E T L A S B N W Z N C W G Z E S H Z K A Z M S A L Y E J K G W R W A E O J E B H E E K L L P F Y G T N I O P N E G R E B L C J R S D S E X J N E A I L V O F N U N E K O B O H T S E W P G I P Y Y H C O T H E R W E S T N E W Y O R K H B Q X B C S R D D R S A B E E A J B L W H R A T S N O S I R R A H Q T R C J K Z N W S S R W C A G N O F K B G N H S O M M S D A A J N A X W T K T E S K K I D Z V P F Z O K M G A X K M R H L P N V T A U E O G T E K N D H W L O T J A C K S O N S T A J T S C A S G N C P A N Z O F W S R G N A V A N B U S K I R K A L D T S Y J X C X S B V B E B N U V H S Y C N I Q P J T P H Z H H U F N U H G T H A G C I P M K S P D T B Q Y R H L P Y H F F L T X R T C A I P X L Z N O R T H B E R G E N B R B U S D E Y C R R A I M F F R L J Y W D K Y X G U T T E N B E R G E E D D H S F E D C A C V H S D H J G O F K E A R N Y B R C S J O G F H U T K

Look for the following post offices: * Source: New Jersey DPOs by Brad Arch Arlington Guttenberg Sta Kearny Sta Secaucus Br Bergen Harrison Br La Fayette Sta Taurus Bergen Avenue Sta. Harrison Sta Naval Supply Center Sta Terminal Sta Bergen Point Homestead Naval Supply Depot Sta Van Buskirk Christie Hudson New Durham Weehawken Constable Hook Hudson Heights North Bergen Br Weehawken Sta Greenville Jackson Sta Pavonia Br West Hoboken Guttenberg Kearny Br Saltersville West New York

Hunterdon Established March 13, 1714 County Created from parts of Burlington & West Jersey County seat: Flemington

A Sand Brook manuscript cancel on a Civil War cover to Raven Rock.

Many old post offices were located in the local general store, as this one in Sand Brook – near Stockton – was.

The Sand Brook post office was established in 1858, and probably did not have a handstamp or steel canceller at the time the manuscript cancel on the Civil War cover above was used.

The post office picture at right is likely from around 1910.

As many post offices change over time, so did Sand Brook. The cover below is the last day of use (in 1959) as an independent post office. At that time, it became a rural station of Stockton, as the second cover indicates. It existed as a rural station until May 1970, when it was finally closed for good. Mail to Sand Brook now comes by mail route delivery from Stockton.

* Covers and information courtesy NJPHS member Jim Walker. For further information on all the post offices of Hunterdon County, see his 2008 book, Hunterdon County New Jersey Postal History, available from the Hunterdon County Cultural & Heritage Commission.

HUNTERDON COUNTY DPOs

U J Z W E L L I V R E T N E C G L Q P E R R Y V I L L E O N A W G K R N U O Y L Y E L L A V X W R E A V I L L E G E F P P A I W F Z F W A R R E N P A P E R M I L L S U T P Z H H F O L F H A H N L Y V I G X P P O T T E R S T O W N V M F X D A K I M D B T N E O F F C O E U B W V K Y E C F M D R U R C F C W M G P U U L M E H E L H T E B A H Y Z R I S N U N L R Q O V O M W M D L M R F G Q V A I L E B D E O P G I A O G E R R H U B Q B M A A G E A L G U E Q N O N E T F V K V E K K O N X N U V L U V I D E L L B X O E C L A Z O D I E Z L T M C E D T C X E N R G K G F R A E W G P I L V N R R C L L S A K V G A Y G T X E T R C E N Z H N Z O C L R U H O S E I K T T A E I X L X X W P D T D V A Q E A Q V O Y I P L H S V Q T O R M R K O C G O W E R M M M P D L W L H L P Z G M Y S R I W H Q Y E S P Z L X I H P K O C M F M N L E W R T I H K X S N V H X L B E S R A V T W C U K A N S K R R U G R M I R O O Y I M J A C N N I Q O A E B N W H F M H D B K G E O E A I N Y L F M D M W W U N Y G R A T Z E T I B S T W J A U R L W S K U Y E K Y E A Z E W J T R G I D L D M H J U F S N O C G C P C A N A Q L J N G R Q S B R P L C A L H U E A U T T K K O L C U N O W L D Q N J M V E E Q M I M J H T U I R A S P O R I J O W T H I E J L H E I R E A L B O V W L I R E I S Q L N N Q G K M S T F T G U O L T N L D W H G W A U M I N E O N E V D C L E U T N J P K Q L O I G E S N H N N O O S V L T W R A J L Y A S Z U A R P Y E W S N P V U L L D N U L I C F V S L U K A E M B H V R R Y L N L L O F O G W B V N A L Y F D I E F Y O J H H U Z V Z Z R W T K P T O B R Q Q T N L S U P T F S L Q I Y C V R K Y N N P X K U M O Z W F Y H D E N Q T U O S J W S E J U K Y E G T D K S A N Y L E B G T Y C A P O Z S R S E N I L K T I I B I S S E L L I P P G Q Q V Q V I O N M F O P G G W A H H J O V U W M G U R B N E T T A P C A C A

Look for the following post offices: * Source: New Jersey DPOs by Brad Arch Alexandria Croton Mount Airy Reaville Anthony Fair Mount Mount Green Rocktown Barbertown Hamden Mountainville Sidney Bethlehem Holland New Hampton Treasure Island Bissell Idell Oak Dale Tumble Centerville Jutland Pattenburg Valley Clarksville Klines Penwell Vansycles Store Clover Hill Linvale 06 Perryville Warren Paper Mills Cokesbury Lower Valley Potterstown Wertsville Copper Hill Mattisons Co Raven Rock Williamsburgh The following Hunterdon DPOs are not in the puzzle: Amwell Everittstown Ludlow Rileyville Asbury Station Grover Mount Pleasant Rowland Mills Barley Sheaf Hepburns New Germantown Sand Brook Rur. Br Cherryville Hunts Mills Norton Santonville Clinton Station Junction Oak Grove Sunny Side Cokesburgh Kingwood Pleasant Run Van Syckles Cooksbury Klinesville Prallsville White Hall Coryells Ferry Locktown Reading Point Woodglen

Mercer County Established Feb 22, 1838 Created from parts of Burlington, Hunterdon & Middlesex County seat: Trenton

A nice “corner card” (the name for the advertisement in the upper left corner), and a Port Mercer, NJ cancel from the 1850s.

Port Mercer is today a place name that exists in history, a once busy hamlet located in Mercer County on the Delaware & Raritan Canal that also serviced the Camden & Amboy Railroad. Today, the Quackerbridge Mall and U. S. Route 1 dominate the nearby landscape. A post office was established in Port Mercer on December 4, 1849, with the sender, J.A.S. Crater, as postmaster. Crater opened a general store in Port Mercer from which he operated the post office and he built a home on the canal that was later expanded and converted into an inn.*

Mail was transferred here between barges and train lines, and cancelled with a Port Mercer handstamp.**

This post office closed in 1866, but opened again and enjoyed another 10 years of existence between 1900 and 1910.

Port Mercer Canal House **

* Courtesy NJPHS member Robert G. Rose. ** Places in Time, by The Lawrenceville Historical Society at http://www.thelhs.org/newsletters/Summer2009.pdf.

MERCER COUNTY DPOs

G N Q D B Z N X V Z E L L I V E C N E R W A L B T W K E L W X C X B Z G V Q K T E A S T W I N D S O R C Q I T J K P O R T M E R C E R J G N H Y B T Y K A H L B T R G E V O Q I Q D V B Z E L L I V S N I B B O R K A G A I O V D G C H D E L L I V D R A Y Z I Q Z B L R K E Q F V I A O O Q P U X W Q C D S J C W Q M J R Y U E W T Z E V Y N J H O S U G O Q O R E S O R T N U O M R E Z W X H R B S R S B J G W E S T T R E N T O N O I S W A M T U S K G S T T K N E L L I V R E C R E M I A B T I R S E F T R T T U A W M H A R B O U R T O W N U A M S K L A B M E G A A W T O M E G F S A F E O U G Y S Q O F O A Q A E R G X K I E Q A X Z L M O O R E H O I X F N O T H N N O G E B B L H M V A D N F V E G Q R N K P X H S J E S V Z L V L N B O S E N I L E C N I V O R P H C E G L B E F L P D N O U S Y O Z H D U T C H N E C K S C Z R U V K I X S H E I R P E R O O M N E L G D H B G N W B R I V V S I R I E T T I N M P I K D T V J B E N E C Q G L O S C L P A L R C H T S V L O D IT Z Q E L I R E R H L H D A J A U H L U N A A O Y R D B D K Z L N W O O L E P O G L B X X C C Z U B L Y N G W X V V I I A O T T B C O A S B W A H U R I J U B P I S X S W V A L S I O R E W K S Z J O B V L E U N L R Q I J E I E R Y E R A U Q S N O T L I M A H A S C O D W D E C V V T C G J V X G A E H K D E K X B L T T R T V K J K Z O L Y Z B Q I C H R L H G H H A V T O H V L N T C O C R A H L W G X J W E N O E D I N B U R G H O T E B N H G V P E N N S N E C K U P E O M B G F I R H O Y R B V F A L J S S A TRSNCRBROSDN I W T S A ET L G N P Y R J A S M W B E W I N G V I L L E D X O G Z B

* Source: New Jersey DPOs by Brad Arch Look for the following post offices: Bakers Basin Glenmoore Lawrenceville Robbinsville Dutch Neck Greensburgh Mercerville State Hospital Br East Windsor Groveville Moore Trenton Junction East Windsor Br Groveville Br Mount Rose West Trenton Edinburgh Hamilton Square Naval Training School Sta Wilburtha Etra Harbourtown Penns Neck Woodsville Evans Sta Hillcrest Port Mercer Yardville Ewingville Lawrence Station Provinceline

Middlesex Established March 1, 1683 County Created from East Jersey (one of the original four counties) County seat: New Brunswick

Maurer, NJ cover from 1905, an invitation to a Metzelsuppe!.*

Maurer was a small industrial community, located just north of the City of Perth Amboy in Middlesex County. The Maurer community was a “company town” built by the Henry J. Maurer Brick Company. Not only did the community have its own post office, but also its own railroad station. The Maurer Post Office was established January 22, 1892. On November 30, 1920 it became a station of the Perth Amboy Post Office and on February 1, 1938 the name was changed to Barber, which was a branch of the Perth Amboy Post Office. The Barber Post Office was discontinued, April 30, 1960.**

*For more on Maurer & Metzelsuppes, visit http://www.njpostalhistory.org/featuredcovers.html. * Information courtesy NJPHS member Gene Fricks.

MIDDLESEX COUNTY DPOs

X S O U T H B R U N S W I C K I N X K Q R B R E M L I K M H I P S O X C V Y C K N A B Y A L C W U K U T N L K B I B Q I X R O O S E V E L T C A R T E R E T G K G N K F Y F I R G Q D C Q X S T X P E Y S H W P R O B R A H E C N E R U A L T G G D C N C I G K E G B R U N S W I C K I A S T D Z F X Z U W R D H H G Q Q K C W V K V R Q G L Q V B I C L R S P F J Y I B I E K R B L A N E S R A N A T I R A R N H O E H I R X H B K V E P V N E W B R O O K L Y N R B V V O R G A B W B Y B Y R M S P K H M P S R O A X A D L A Q T Q L O Q I D J O J Z A A J E M B A H C A E B D O O W F F I L C O M Z D D B T J M X P F Q C R A N B U R Y S T A T I O N O F C E Z M M N J U N I L I U R T J A C L M B E C N E R W A L T E N U A I L B N R D L A A E D N T C X Q X Y T G R X X L X E R P D J K R J S K N A P K B G E F Q R B F T H D X B V Y H W I I M I B H S S O W D P E E B W A X T B Z Y N A O B R H M A U R E R S T A X O B N L Q W D M F N Y X Y I H O A F B E B Z H L J D F W M S R R E E R K E A H K S S Y K G R U D U O M U J J Z H F A L N B F K G F P E E R T K A O W B S L N X L P L R U W E R O L I N S S A C P J K Q W F P V E S E K B N A U R I R F C Q C I A E S D R Q W J E T Q E F R V Q G D R G H R B L K O D F Q N L E L D T J T T T R T V B Z P J R D O N P M Y B U P M I D C P R R G H C L W N Z C R H E K F O U W O G T K N F C M E Y O T G G P V S T E L T O N Q K R I E J N X U W I X E O R A Z L C T M D F B L A C K H O R S E Z G P T I D E W F Q B R G C N E B A M N T Q U S A G S S X J P S X O N R D K O N D I D J C P G U Z 3 O N R B L A T I P S O H K W X K F O O Y U D W S E S D R A R P J N U R E L I M X I S X N K M Y X A B E C H F T O N E M J Q G M K R A P O L N E M D Z M J I F D A A C S M V R O R B S W U R E U I I S X Y B G H T U N I O N T O W N Q P P N X D K E A Z S A G W J I P R E D N A R T S O H Z F E D V N A S

Look for the following post offices: * Source: New Jersey DPOs by Brad Arch Kilmer Br Laurence Nixon Br Amboy Cliffwood Beach Harbor Oak Tree Applegarth Colonia Lawrence Ostrander Barber Br Cranbury Station Lincoln Prospect Plains Black Horse Deans Marcounier Raritan Arsenal Br Browntown Fords Maurer Roosevelt-Carteret Brunswick Georges Road Maurer Sta Six Mile Run Camp Kilmer Br Green Brook Menlo Park South Brunswick Cheesequake Hospital Br No 3 New Brooklyn Stelton Chrome (Rahway) New Market Uniontown Clay Bank Kendall Park Br Nixon Weber

Monmouth Established March 1, 1683 County Created from East Jersey (one of the original four counties) County seat: Freehold (Borough)

A manuscript-cancelled stampless folded letter from Burnt Tavern in 1841.

Burnt Tavern – a community about 7 miles southwest of Freehold in Monmouth County, has a post office from 1837 to 1844, located in a store in the tavern. It was closed and Burnt Tavern disappeared from maps, replaced by Charleston Springs. No post office by that name existed but in 1886, a post office named Ely appeared, located in the Ely Hotel at least part of its existence, at the intersection of what is now County Route 524 [formerly Stage Coach Road], and Charleston Springs Road. Its only postmaster was Henry H. Wolcott, and the post office appears to have been located in the tavern, on the south Ely Hotel – site of the Ely post office. side of Route 524, near Manalapan Brook.* * Thanks to NJPHS member Ken Hall and Mount, Jean E., History of the Township of Millstone, Published by the Twp. Of Millstone, Heidelberg Press, Inc, Burlington, NJ, 1982. Monmouth County DPOs not included in puzzle: Runsom Landing Alfred Vail Rur.Sta Fair Haven Long Branch Village Scobeyville Alfred Vail Sta Fennent Manasquan Beach Br Sea Bright Ardena Fillmore Manasquan Park Signal Sta.(:Long Atlanticville Freneau Middletown Point Branch) Baird Granville Monmouth Smithburg Bradevelt Hamilton Neptune Br Spaw Branch Shore Holmeson New Bedford Spring Lake Beach Chanceville Hopeville New Branch Spring Lake Heights Br. Chapel Hill Howell Br New Monmouth Squam Village Circle Plaza Br Howelltown New Shrewsbury Br Squankum Claytons Mills Jersey Homesteads North Long Branch Sweetmans Davis Rur.Br Ocean Beach Vanderburg East Long Branch Key East Parkerville Wall Elberon Leedsville Red Valley Walnford Elton Leonard Avenue Riceville West End Ely Locust Br Robertsville West Keansburg Br 32

MONMOUTH COUNTY DPOs

X I C U E H Z O X J H T H H O W E L L F U R N A C E H P T O A Y S H A RK R I V EROZNRCNWSRXRW Z W E LEY H E Z P I K N H I G H L A N D S O F N E V I S I N K I G L B G H D K C O C N A H T R O F Y Y J V F G H O X W U I Z N C H W Y V O Z O G Z X R O H G E T E N A P A L A N A M E R O O O A R X K X D R A H T U O S H S K D O C J K O H E A Z Z P C R L U U S N B D W G I M B T H J O I U X T M P Z T H V G E P N K B O F O Z I E R D U F S A Z O Y D C H E H O F C H O I Y E S S S O R Y B E U U KFDCOHFLEKHNHP E O C PHR M W E F A J U L B H N Z D T T Y V F A A T V Z L I C U N Z S I E A T H J R L O H A C G A W D O N S O L H Q S E F K X F T L R P K S H N I C H U I L X G N D Z W I A B C J D N X D O O L H L I W RT V R E QNOO I ANNRHMZEU O A F YXW S S A S E X T N P V S A A T F S L E Q B B C S A T H E U X N S L I O N I A O T E R E O M Q A L R R Z E E J T C H U O N K M A N K A L V S W R E C G V N L R S H E R T H P J H G N Y H W Y C V O A E L A E W O P D I H L K D S L L A F N O T N I T Q H H F U K R E F T O W I V E L P D R C Y B L L U N H W H S J Z I T N E N N O T L N Y L I P K E A I T O W Z O B C W H O S F E F E CV Q N I GELMJRAMYVVVW F J C G WPJ F I S Z W O S B T H S I S R A M P Q X H O P M Q T Y U D W S C Y J Z E M Y A K R V K B P I L H G A E E K Y Z R Z F S H P K E P V L O K Q E D C C A L O Q W R B R A E D I S Y A W T I S K R A L E C J R A H L H W L L V P I Y W D J D B K C G Y H F R V L F K U A L N L U S B N G U A H S J O V V Y C N H K P S U Q O V J N B E I R E Q T N U L B C X K E C E X S P O K Q V T E A Z O R E V S R C F C N L Y Q E H D U O L C T N I A S T H J W E Z X A T N R B L I A V D E R F L A I I N V G H O H P L X L Z I P H A L A N X T P W E S T F R E E H O L D P Y Z Z L P S Q U A N V I L L A G E Q K D W A X A L O D N E L G C

Look for the following post offices: * Source: New Jersey DPOs by Brad Arch Alfred Vail Br Fort Hancock Manalapan Shark River Allaire Glendola Milhurst Shrewsbury Amberly Highlands Of Nevisink Nelsonville Southard Blacks Mills Hornerstown New Sharon Squan Village Burnt Tavern Howell Furnace Newell Tinton Falls Camp Low Jerseyville Oceanic Turkey Coburgh Lake Como Phalanx Villa Park Deal Beach Leonardville Saint Cloud Walks Mills Eatontown Landing Locust Sandy Hook Wayside Everett Lower Squankum Sea Plain West Freehold Many Monmouth County DPOs are not included in this puzzle: These are listed on the previous page.

Morris County Established March 15, 1739 Created from parts of Hunterdon County seat: Morristown

Naughright, one of the many little towns in western Morris County now lost to antiquity. The place still exists, but – by contrast to the description in 1914 shown below* – the trains no longer run and the businesses are defunct, including the post office that once existed here from 1868 (as Naughrightville, and then as Naughright in 1886) until 1948.

*Documents of the ... Legislature of the State of New Jersey, Issue 2, 1914

MORRIS COUNTY DPOs

R K W T X F G R E Y S T O N E P A R K B N Q U D F J B Q P Y O B G D O T R W P H E V O R G T N A S A E L P K L K A T S M C T A F I W Y A E M O Q B L H W F P E K H R K S Q C R X C A K D V E A F B T E L L I V R U O B H G I E N F O S B T E K R A Y D U A C R E D W F O Q Y W U H S J P N G C K B B L U B C W T P L P G O R A O R V E W N R S A Q G H J W M O D E N S E A J O S N N O V G K R L L N O P F A F V N Y H X T R Y O M L Y D R S R Q K I A H L T E K J A D N L T G H V V T P B I N L V N T H S H V L B A S P M G E M F H O B O Y L B L X M T X A A O O U L Y A L V B E R T R A N D I S L A N D O E H T A V P L P R Z X Z L E L O E G L Z S F Y M M N M V M L H M D T T H L N A Q C M L R L X W A L N U T G R O V E Z W U I K N S N B E E M X I D E P I W P W F G X A U Q P M C I H N L O T T T S Y E X S D H Y F H T H S Z N B E G U Y H I G E U L P P N R Y Q R H I E W F W G V J U Z Y U M I E Z O E H U U R M D E O R K G M R B H P C N Y K F T V O S L Q G R I F B S A K I V Y N N W E R E I O X O Z D S O V G L H N M L N F F T H I U N H K W P L O A T C Y L W S K W R A A N A L A L I I A S O U O I R O J T M V E L C Q Q Z D U V N S N B U D X E N I T O U C L A T L X T E H U K V E W B E O S V P G C G L E N V I E W U L M D X D R R A D X M E S R V C A C H U P T R O P D O O W B S N R V A O T L X H U N I E I L U R P H D R A L S T O N Z R O E U W E P O L B R E H R W L O I F A Y S O N L A K E S C G J D H H B K W W D H S N K E X G N W O T S E K A R D J X R V Q E G F J O N A P K E X Y T H D H M O U N T H O P E H H B K N K C I Q W H E R C H J E T D S N S O I F J Z N N R F I V V W A N B B T T E K E H B T H V E T R U S T I C U D X W U J W D L W Z V S B B X P Z U N O L A N S P O I N T B D Q J X F Y D V V Z Q X F D M S Z Q V N M K P E L L I V S N I A C C M W O F P D G T F Q E L L I V R E W O P C P P A R K E R W Q M P M Y

Look for the following post offices: * Source: New Jersey DPOs by Brad Arch Afton German Valley Middle Valley Powerville Bartley Glenview Mine Hill Ralston Beavertown Green Pond Mount Hope Rockaway Valley Berkshire Valley Greystone Park Naughright Rustic Bertrand Island Hanover Neck Neighbourville Stephensburg Bottle Hill Hurdtown Nolans Point Troy Hills Brook Valley Lake Denmark Parker Walnut Grove Convent Station Long Hill Pleasant Grove Waterville Drakestown Marcella Port Morris Whitehall Fayson Lakes Mc Cainsville Port Oram Woodport Morris County DPOs not in this puzzle: Bartley Rur.Br Lathrop Mount Olive Stanley Bartleyville Littleton Naughrightville Stony Brook Drakesville Logansville Passaic Valley Washington Florham Park Br Milldale Randolph Br Weldon Hanover Milton Randolph Sta

Ocean County Established Feb 15, 1850 Created from parts of Monmouth 2nd last county in NJ to be established County seat: Tom’s River

Spray Beach has a post office from 1939 to 1956

Spray Beach is a community on Long Beach Island, now served by the Beach Haven post office. It now covers – on that narrow barrier island – a distance of 7 blocks, from 20th to 27th Streets. It did however once have its own post office. At first (1939-1940), it was a summer post office, open only in those months, but from 1940 to 1956 it had a full-time post office.

Ocean County DPOs not in puzzle Barnegat City Colliers Mills Leisure Mall Br Rivera Beach Br Beach Arlington Davisville Manchester Seahaven Beach Haven Terrace Downsville Manor Park Br Shore Acres Berkeley Arms Ellisdale Metedeconk Spray Beach Brant Beach Harvey Cedars Mill Port Staffordville Breton Woods Br Hazelton Ortley Surf Brick Town Herbertsville Osborn Van Hiseville Brookville Hospital N09 Br (Lakewood) Parkertown Warren Grove Cedar Creek Jacksons Mills Pine Plains West Point Pleasant Cedar Run Lakehurst Proving Grounds Point Pleasant Wire Town Chadwick Laurelton Potters Creek

OCEAN COUNTY DPOs

A F H N W O T L L E H S R S I V W Z K E J H C H Q R O N J K W L K I O E W D O X U E C Q E L L I V Y R R E B U C E F U D C P N N G A T T H Y A M R E D O A K G R O V E I W C H L E K D H G R O O U BJ I I ELL I VSRRUB B M N ES Z V B C J Y W L A N O K A B S N J Y A W U H I A A N Q V W X O W D A E H Y A B X O G O S Q S Z G Y H G R H W X Z O H M R B A B K N H K A Y L D W A D A M S T O N A O Q B M F I H G Y Q S R P L A Y F S Z U V W X G F P E R T Y D J H C T S K Q X P E I Q H A Z N R Z A T Z D N G G R E P B W R T E O C F Z P B N M F X F P H Y S O N D A I E C O V R A K J S E I R U H M E I B Z E O G W N X Q T B P A M T F E E A A V L W A K O A W C T E F J J D C X P F S E J E Q O T L N A I L S N Q I B A K W V R R A M A A H O U O V X T S O L E V L I E C X S W L M L P T G J Q R D R J G W S Z N H N I D U L V K I N T D D R C X W S E K K P F S N O V U I I W V A V E S E S M L S R Z H E R L L N K V F U S J S L O P O N S C U S F M E Y Y E B K G D Z O L I C I F B D L O P B O R A R D A P I I E E J R H X R A A Z I R H R X W X I H O D O P E E C D L S A O L W C C E U R Z W M O A E Z B O G T S B L S J V U L N F W D E V N A O B C M E T N S L C K I T W S X T K I U S A N W I S K Y E E A S R X F T W E G E H O J O N H D Q Z J H B S G E V R W V B K K E H M E O F E C M B L O A Y P S H D P V D T G X E W A A F C S S C N R O L O P T T V T H A G O Z W H L U K HBBHRO I THBNKRR U Q R E I S L S O T O A T I V H X F I H E R R J C S E S D D T E N C E R K W K C N L X Y X P U R X C I D B G B F B P T E V P F R Q J Y E R E V L U C V L X J G A V C L N V O P O P L G R G P X Y R Y J T I I G G T P C Y B E I Q I L A M U D I W U N N H Q Y H E K E E R C E L T T E K B R U D Z O P K S D S

Look for these post offices: * Source: New Jersey DPOs by Brad Arch Adamston Bricksburgh Hyson Pinewald Bamber Burrsville Keswick Grove Prospertown Barnegat Park Cassville Kettle Creek Red Oak Grove Bay Head Cedar Crest Lacey Riviera Beach Br Beach Haven Crest Chaseford Lanoka Shelltown Bennett Mills Crest Haven Legler Ship Bottom Bergen Iron Works Culver Mayetta Silverton Berkeley Francis Mills Oakford Surf City Berryville Graham Osbornville Whitesville Breton Woods High Point Pasadena Woodmansie

Ocean County DPOs not in puzzle on previous page

Passaic County Established Feb 7, 1837 Created from parts of Bergen & Essex County seat: Paterson

This wasp-waist shaped county contains some of New Jersey’s most rural and most populous areas.

* From Doug D’Avino’s Post Offices of New Jersey - A History Told Through Postcards

For 15 years (1915-1930, the tiny post office at Awosting served communities around the area of Greenwood Lake. Around 1874, the Montclair and Greenwood Lake Railway reached the lake at Awosting, and helped build the growing resort community around the lake.

*NJPHS web site at www.NJPostalHistory.org

PASSAIC COUNTY DPOs

T L A H C T O N T A E R G D L E R S K I N E D F M I E B A N E O F P A R C E L P O S T S T A A Y U G Z R R O M M F J Y D K T G G S K R O W N O R I N O T P M O P N W L E I Z F N Y Z R B B N X Q C S B Z C H A L E D O N H I L E R T L T K H V P F R Y O S P K W M R K Q E W X Z A B P A N L P O V T F K K J R O Q R Q L D W T H S D Y W S C L O G Q O A R T A V B B V K I W Q T O V G C O O P E R U J Z C V A U B V E O L D U X E P N N R H T M I X G R Z M B Q Y A H T P A P D A W E O O Q D A G S M P M N M M W I O S M J M L Y Z O C J I K A F N Y U C C W M O A O S E N O A P S J R N O F S M K U M N S Z S F M Q K O P D T U H A V A E Q M E L P Y F F P A V H E T K B D G G A O V H E N N D A N I D P O A E E O J T N L G S A T Q B K R N D A X R T K S L N G P G A K R A H H O O Y G S U K V C F Q A M Y R S A Y B K A U F I S E X L S O N C R H Z T Q H M W H C A I E O I R A Y W S B H X V R F Y C B K O A L L W O O D Z K N C C N N B S R A V N O O I B U Z S J W C A G N I S F A T L O X H T V Q I I L L N V T E J M I L Q L F V V G Z B V I Q A R A O R I D N E E Q H W W W G J V Q L O A Y C F J A T T Q K C C L B E Q H C D A E M W I G C P R U Y Q E B D F E A P C E U M A R W Z K F W S Z T D L E I F H C I R I M Y U S W I K B W U K T Q C A T T A A A J J J X K J G S L L I M S H T I M S Q C E T Z I H P C T Q J Q O X G R U B E T T O L R A H C O S O F S H D O A I H A L V N O R W O O D S T A T I O N W R M A I R L F R T F E I J A D Y S Y R J G Y E L L A V N O I N U T E O A N E W N M N P A E G D I R B C I A S S A P E O H C H N C H E R T I Y L Z U P M W B I C C N T P R Y D L N E L W Y W D B S W A G M O Z J A L E C A N R U F D O O W G N I R H A U N O F A I O V A J O L H J I F C L I F T O N S T A C Y Z K A N I Q C L G V V L O W E R M A C O P I N M S A U H S A E K R H Y K A N W G Y T T S E R O F G N I L R E T S B W P O S E H

Look for these post offices: * Source: New Jersey DPOs by Brad Arch Allwood Great Notch North Paterson Ringwood Furnace Aquackanock Haledon Norwood Station Ringwood Manor Athenia Hawthorne Orion Singac Browns Lakeview Packanack Lake Smiths Mills Charlotteburg Lower Macopin Parcel Post Sta Sterling Forest Clifton Sta Meads Basin Passaic Bridge Totowa Sta Cooper Midvale Pompton Union Valley Delawanna Milvale Pompton Iron Works Upper Macopin Echo Lake Moe Preakness Valkyrie Erskine Mountainview Richfield West Paterson Passaic DPOs not used in puzzle: Athenia Sta. Haledon Sta Madison Sta Temple Sta Awosting Lakeside Passaic Bridge: Sta Greenwood Forest Macopin Singac Sta

Salem County Established May 17, 1694 Created from West Jersey (one of the first West Jersey counties) County seat: Salem

Daretown (1857-1954)

Two Daretown cancels, the upper one from 1907, and the lower one on the day the Daretown post office was closed.

SALEM COUNTY DPOs

A X V H T S U S W E N I T A L A P L M F U N B N H D B C V N K C V K I F O P U D N W O T S Y A W O L L A G A Q W T H I D M S P E Z Q W D L L X S S H S C S K R R I V W N J K H O E C J L L U X N K M D A X B L W E N D Q E T V V X P D N Y C E N T E R T O N J R Y W W E P Y Y H M M I C R A B Z P N P I N W W C A O T X H Y K R K R L C C M I I N W B O I W W S A O D F N B I S N R I T Y Y L T C L W G L E X V O T X C S R C K G P Y E F O A K A A K L O N W G I U T E F K G I E B L O Q F G N D J E O S A T W P D W A L G Y N L E E B A I U S G F O V N R B I P O G I G Q L P I X L S L N N N I N N G I P U W U S R T E R G I A I E Q I B L K E T N E S O T O K O R P A E B B C B H T P P H O I I B W T V N J T Q S O G S H R W S G M S T M P S R V N C Y O A B O D N F P H E S A Z N T Z R S H E E O S S O V N R V H R C A I I G A D I O W J A G U V G U R E H B S C D U H N R C W L O D J T J T M R F O D G E Y A N B X S A M L T C D A N C J Y L X D O N C I H M V N W R A I P E I O I R A E X X A N J K V L S R C R I S O I G U Y C Q N E L I A M R D T I E E J M D X A L E T D M I B D E A E E I D J F C M M Q T B L L P H L Y K G H B M U L S M L N W O T L L U C S Q E E I Y E A R E D H A E R B T B X G E I B K B Q E W H J X C H W O I L V Y U F N O K G R U B S E I R F S X T G E A O Y V R U O P E N T O N V I L L E K X X Z N U R O D Z I F T C Z E L V I H Q L L I H N O T G N I N N A M

* Source: New Jersey DPOs by Brad Arch Look for the following post offices: Aldine Course Landing Harmersville Pitts Grove Alliance Cravens Ferry Helms Cove Quintons Bridge Allowaystown Daretown Kinseyville Sculltown Auburn Daytons Bridge Mannington Hill Sharptown Canton Eldridges Hill Marshalltown Shirley Carneys Point Friesborough Palatine Whiglane Centerton Friesburg Pedricksburg York Town Cohansey Hancock Pentonville

Somerset County Established May 1688 Created from parts of Middlesex County seat: Somerville

The heart of New Jersey…

Some Somerset County DPOs – Mine Brook (1892, followed by Minebrook) to 1908, North Branch Depot (and Northbranch Depot) 1861-1966, and Weston (1832-1915).

SOMERSET COUNTY DPOs

J G A L L I A T D S M I D F P S L L I M S N A M K E E B R J K F W A R R E N E H R J O Y T J M I M N S A E W D C D O I X L U X U H J U L X K T P U W P Y B N F J W D A D I W Z Z U X I A S C Q F K S Z R U Y G A M T O W J L K A K V H J C P N G N N W C Y R S O O X Z N H T Z B N M V E O W R O E T S I I M E O N B D L T F K R E B T C A I V P C S D Q T L B N H S W A S T D K I I K D T O N N Y H M N Y Q G S A E W X L E A J D W M S R T R NP M X Y OI SUCUYYYELK I P K D U NOP I E K M A NJ O B C TTMNRRBPPRQPCG Q B O NOG L W S R C O J N J E S E I G E F S T A C F Z E B I T B A H R L C F F B R H T H F L S L I D J L R T R T U K R G Y S L S F S N I I S T P G C I L R L R N Z P B Y O C B X N J F Q Q U A E A J N O H Q O R E I H S F A I V H V S X D I Z C C A M B O G T W D U B Z M B L M M W Z V W A R L S L M L P W B I N E L S I I E T R I E R D T O M T E R D E J R O Z C R E H E A L A O R Y R H A J R O X S S M O L T Z J U O S O O T I L E R D M U A S N S N B Y Q F A A Q I M Q E F L A X P J L V U L W D I T R S E O C D P R A E J N M D I F B C D W W L T D Z L L I N H F E Z M H R F C R G G V T Q W L Q K S T S E O N A I C M G B O L I E D J B A V E C E V Z D B L I F B Q L F A D V V Z T R D L O R E X H D N Q I C D Y U V N S O D N Y T R A N Z L O A A I N V P G U P O T L L I H D L B R T M I O W G M I Q G N N E V S I O W J B K J I D W N M Q O H M O F B O L S A H H Y C H N J L T L J H Q A N F C C A U J L U J N H D Y V L P Q D H U E U L J L T M M I N E B R O O K Q B B H E J Q I P C Y E C N R S E D N S T O U T S B U R G F V I N W L C M L K S Y L C Y R O A O K Z M D A H J Q N D A C L Y D E C R Z L U D Y G X C A I W B L A C K W E L L S M I L L S G U H Z W E K K B X S M W C Z GW D L E ECGC I NAHSENCUR S N O YLU C I R C H P P N W O T S G G I R G K I O G U M V X A M Y L Y

Look for the following post offices: * Source: New Jersey DPOs by Brad Arch Adamsville Frankfort Lesser Cross Roads Somersetin Avena Gallia Lyons South Branch Beekmans Mills Grandview Middlebush South Somerville Black Wells Mills Griggstown Millstone Stoutsburg Bloomington Harlingen Minebrook Warren Clyde Head Of Raritan Montgomery Warrenville Doughtys Mills Hillsboro Neshanic Watchung – East Millstone Hilltop North Branch Depot Weston Evander Klines Mills Plainville Zion Finderne Lamington Roycefield Somerset DPOs not used in puzzle: East Millstone Br Middlebush Br North Branch West Brunswick Br

Sussex County Established May 16, 1753 Created from parts of Morris County seat: Newton

Kays, NJ – a Sussex county DPO from April 13, 1887 to May 1. 1889 – located in the Beaver Lake RR Station on the NY & Susquehanna RR line. Most postmarks from this office were RPOs – railway post offices – but the one above is Kays, Sussex, Co. NJ in 1889, the last year of this post office’s existence. Shown below is an old newspaper view, 2 photos from 1987*, and a 2008 photo**, showing what happens to most of these old landmarks.

* Courtesy Len Peck, ** Courtesy estatik on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/estatik/2940284845/

SUSSEX COUNTY DPOs

Y F U E L L I V Y T R E B I L M F S M F A Q C K M O N J X Q W N J P V N O R M A N O C K A R G G V L X A T J O X Z B E H N O T S Y D N A S I S L L I M S T N U H X G D I V U R W E Z I J C L Q R L M Y Q M O N T A G U E G J E F Y G I I Z D C P R B A P E L L I V S E L O C E A A H R M A D P Z C A U Y B H E K L X S B D E H B F D Z P L G F X A I D N A K B T V U M E E I E B K S E R W L K B E L A V Y N O M R A H K I N Y W B W T Q M O A S P E T A U K E T R R I C O E R O P T B L A M A B S X R S M V F U G I U Y A M M A W A Y Q U Z A E W T Z W G K I C C A P V R F V R G N M W Z W B T S S S R A P E C A X U P N S H T E R R J F Y L P D W B Z M F E Y G V T R F Y J W E K A L S R E V L U C P F O O V W H O J P B E M L E A C S F D R C P Q B T R A D E V A L L E Y K A X C R D O M N T N L H J K W H Q C T H C H E Y E S L A H K G S R E O C D A A A E L L I V R E M E E B R U I D V A M E N I U C N A A W V T H Y K N O W L T O N S M I L L S R D P I Q N A O F B T E B Z F Y B I A E L L I V N E S R U O C T T U X N S E R N B R M F G E H L I F F Z C L M U K S I I L A A S R I E E N N O F F X U O P O U R M N U S A Y D H K P K R V U D V M W K O I O W Z F A C A E E C H Y E U D D T N A R Z F E A H O N K R T I X R C H O D I J S T A S O C E U P Y F N L L W T U V K U T O F K X F O J H G K I S O J B J A V R I T L J R D I K C O I H Y E D N L G F A U N W Y U Z P I M L K E K E G L M K X W Y K E R T O W N P E H K M M B G L X K P Y W K S L Z F O S T E R S F E R R Y H B C M H C Q L D N M H V C E E U R Y O Z L X F X Q W B K E I O Q T W E E M A I D N E H S X V S U S E S U O H X I A N Z L S I L X Y U R X I L D F E H A I N E S V I L L E Z K Z B Z P A P V A C F D A J P N O A C R E B R K E V O C M A R Y B D W Z

Look for these post offices: * Source: New Jersey DPOs by Brad Arch Beaver Run Cutoff Harmony Vale Montague Beemerville Deckertown Houses Normanock Bevans Edison Hunts Mills Papakating Blair Flatbrookville Kampe Petauket Brick House Fosters Ferry Kays Quarryville Byram Cove Franklin Furnace Knowltons Mills Sandyston Canisteer Fredon Lake Wawayanda Trade Valley Colesville Gratitude Libertyville Walpack Coursenville Hainesville Lockwood Waterloo Culvers Lake Halsey Mc Afee Valley Wykertown Sussex County DPOs not in this puzzle : Tuttles Corner Baleville Flatbrookville Rur.Br. Mount Salem Wantage Beaver Lake Greenville North Vernon Warbasse Benville Huntsburg Owen Wawayanda Clove Huntsville Pleasant Valley 90 Westlake Cranberry Lake Lincoln Sperry Springs Willow Grove Culvers Maxville Sussex Mills Wintermute

Union Established March 19, 1857 County Created from parts of Essex & Middlesex County seat: Elizabeth Elizabeth Town was settled in 1665 in East Jersey, by a group of Englishmen (known as Proprietors), headed by Lord John Berkeley & Sir George Carteret. It was named for Carteret’s wife Elizabeth. It became the first Capital of New Jersey (as a proprietorship), until that honor was moved to (Perth) Amboy in 1683.* Early postmarks were sometimes just “E’Town.” The name has been shortened to Elizabeth (making Elizabethtown a DPO). Elizabeth is the current post office name.

* For more information, see page ii.

Two stampless folded letters from Elizabethtown from the 1840’s (then in Essex County). No envelopes were used; the letter sheet was just folded and addressed, and taken to the post office for mailing. The front cover was sent with a Free marking as it was sent to a Member of Congress, The one behind was sent to Princeton for a 10¢ charge.** ** Covers pictures courtesy Jim Forte, dealer in US postal history, at http://www.postalhistory.com / 46

UNION COUNTY DPOs

V N G N G P J E F Y A S E O G D J W T O N M E

L R C X H X D Z U S O Z K B H M A Z N G E R G H Z E U L B R A H E D E F V A Y M G F J T P N

Y I L O O X G B O I L F L O G V J P C W H U A

T R I L T V R Z Y S E L P L Q H B O G F E A R

A B Z V 8 O N M J H R L E S I X K A Q O R U O

T L A J O I F U O B N J L S J V B Q S H W V W

S L B K M Z X R H I L I V E O U S P H A O J E L I E E O T C R B K O M Y M N R R E I P O L N

L H T H R C T A Y H R F K Z G D K U N C D J Q

I Y H J R X U Y H Y S H V W O E O I F A T U B

H A P N I Y H H P E U Z O Q F R N R E V R O Z

Y R O T S N Q I N L T B E L L I V T L E F C N

A R R I S J Q L W N L Z I S N E T S I P B K J R U T M T Z M L W W A F Y C P E Q J V V G L F

R M B M A R C X O O B S Y E L M E R T M O I G

U M W U M U E C H T G J A T S E N I A R R O L

M Y P S Y R B L A I R T S U D N I T V J V X C

L B Y T V G R A S S E L L I T U D Q N A U V Z

C N S S Z C U M H O E D I S N I A T N U O M L V V P E S F G B O A T S E D I S L L I H G S D

X I C W 8 O P L Y O N S F A R M S F M X X L U

K I M S V X M O R R I S A N N E X S T A N L B

* Source: New Jersey DPOs by Brad Arch Look for these post offices: Ash Brook Industrial Br Murray Hill Sta Baltusrol Lorraine Sta. Netherwood Cranesville Lyons Farms New Orange Elizabeth Port Morris Annex Sta Picton Ellendor Morris Sta Roselle Feltville Mountainside Townley Grasselli Murray Hill Tremley Hillside Sta Murray Hill Br West Summit

Warren County Established Nov 20, 182 Created from parts of Sussex County seat: Belvidere

The cover below is an example of a “stampless folded letter.” Before envelopes were commonly used, letters were written, folded, and then taken to the post office, where the postmaster cancelled them with the town name and date, and his own signature (if a cancelling device had not been supplied, as was often the case.) In this case, this 1852 letter was written and canceled by postmaster Jacob Brotzman himself. The value of such letters (as the letter is still attached), is often in the history carried within.

* * From the May 2015 issue of NJPH, http://www.njpostalhistory.org/media/journal/198NJPHmay2015.pdf Brotzmanville was located in Pahaquarry Township, Warren County, two miles above the Water Gap. The post office at Brotzmanville was established in 1830. Previous to this, mail was supplied from Columbia, N.J., in Knowlton Township, on the other side of Blue Mountain from Pahaquarry. In 1830, however, the same year as Brotzmanville P.O. was established, “the face of Mount Tammany was blasted away to provide space for a road….In constructing the Columbia-Walpack Turnpike in 1830, a shelf-like roadway had to be excavated into the rock.” Thus, a more direct postal route could now be established. Getting around the Delaware Water Gap was extremely difficult on foot (a series of rope ladders was used), and basically impossible by horse due to the rockface of Mount Tammany, which sloped steeply, directly into the 90 foot river depths. For that reason, mail may have either been ferried across the Delaware to Dill’s Ferry, Pa. (now Portland, Pa.), and then up that side of the river and back across at the ferry that Brotzman ran, or just straight up the river by boat if navigation was feasible. 4 Brotzmanville continued to have a post office until 1879.** 8 ** from an article by Arne Englund in the issue mentioned above. 48 8

WARREN COUNTY DPOs

Y E L L A V L L I T S Z E C A N R U F D R O F X O Q P O R T C O L D E N V Y H G R U B S Y A S M A R R P K F T L Z J X M E L L I V S R E T N E P R A C W A M O J W B M U S C O N E T C O N G P L R D V V Y H H M O V S N P H M L D V Y H U G H S V I L L E L N K P L R T R E R D A V I S O N G L M R Q Z T B D V V M L H B T T L R T G V R B E A T Y E S T O W N N P V L A D L Q H L L E R G T K Z R C E L L I V S R R A K M M E L C S I Q Z P O B Z N L B R V G L M M B J H V N G L I W I H D H K T P R D I Q L W K W K O R G A V W N A M A N L F E T H A K A K L H A Z E N U I L Q C R X W R R R E Z G L C L M C I D K T R V F N D L U R G Z A B R O V R X T A A I N O N H N M B T T G Q A G N R R R I C A D D J R WT DKRAMARHHE R R V L E E O N T R X K K D RAT HNDRMRL E V H R C OKS Y G F G L S R K G G R W J N M D B F R I N Y H P A T B T M K B A Q R V K Y E O R S E S R M L P N D A M A M O K O H C U E Z B I S G H C J L O O L O U F T E T Q N R R T B L T L R R L I A M F J L N E N K H C O I D O X Q S L W W R E D M L F P R T N I N Z G Y O H O X O R K I T T W D M E N N M K N L K F V K W N N S N F G C V N T W N M R O G R M I Z M I M X S V T G T T H O N N L K A Y S O L N V C K L E K G N M K H B Z Z R A M F Z M Y R U B S N W O T L L R F R K N O R T N D H E L L I V S E N I F L G D Z K S D L G C K O Z F F D D D S T E W A R T S V I L L E S T A T I O N C M

Look for these post offices: * Source: New Jersey DPOs by Brad Arch Alpha Davison Karrsville Ramsaysburgh Anderson Delaware Gap Kill Mills Rockport Beatyestown Delaware Station Lopatcong Br Rocksburg Brainards Dunnfield Marksboro Serepta Bridgeville Finesville Millbrook Shimers Calno Franklin Mount Hermon Shoemaker Carpentersville Gravel Hill Musconetcong Stewartsville Station Cooksville Hardwick Oxford Furnace Still Valley Cornish Hazen Pahaquarry Townsbury Danville Hughsville Port Colden Warrington Warren County DPOs not in this puzzle : Bloomsburg Harmony Mount Bethel Springtown:’ Brotzmanville Howard New Village Vail Butts Bridge Knowlton Paulina Walnut Valley Circle City Dr Mansfield Polkville Warrenton Hainesburg Montana Riegelsville

New Jersey’s Earliest Post Offices

Post offices established 1800 and before

Stampless folded letter from Burlington, NJ in 1699 State Map of NJ 1795, where an enlargeable version is available at: HISTORICAL NEW JERSEY MAPS http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/MAPS.html. New Jersey actually had post offices as early as the late 1600s in places such as Amboy and Burlington – the Capitals of East and West Jersey. Newark, New Brunswick, Princeton and Trenton all had post offices before 1776. These post office cancels are found on stampless folded letters (letter sheets used before the introduction of U.S. postage stamps in 1847). No envelope is involved; the letter is folded for privacy, and postal markings are placed on the outside at the post office, indicating whether the postal fee was paid or to be collected from the recipient.. Stampless folded letters continued in use until about 1855, when it became necessary to use stamps and prepay postal fees. Envelopes came into use about the same time.

The post offices covered here, however, are those formed after New Jersey signed the Declaration of Independence and became a State. There were approximately 50 such post offices in existence.

Salem, NJ letter from 1800

* Illus. courtesy NJPHS member Ed Siskin

Post offices from this era not included in the puzzle on following page. Bridgetown East Millstone Rahway Elizabethtown New Brunswick Somerset Hackensack Paramus Springfield Johnsonburg Pluckemin

NEW JERSEY POs 1776 ~ 18OO

Y G R U B M A H O Q M I D D L E T O W N P O I N T H R S K N W O T S T T I P O H O Y S N P T F Q A B R H B E S C T C E T V C P W A J L R N U W N W O T N E D R O B A T S P G Q Y V W T Z S V T O C O K E N H G M R T J Y L F E Y D K U R E L R N R J T Z T X J E L B N X A Q E E V W Q I C X J U M I E N B R K N W H W H J O R L Q F M N N S R I W U I B N B W Z E D E O I M G K T B P W F P W W O B W O R K T S X O K K L L O K I U B G K Q N S T O O H D S O A O G Y W T V C M L D X L O N N B H E U Q T T H O N D N O W L A E P U S A S U L R O I U L H S Y S E I O U B L R O S T L R T G N T Y S O T M R S S S K E G V W R U X B T Y E T V H G Z O A Y B E E L N C E I R D H W B R C D A A M S X H S A W W H S C L I W F X F O I N A L Y A N T W O U W Y B V N K B D N F N O B G S O R O H C G C U S A N B S S L X S G O E I C G T E Y P M B T G C K P O I K M O F O C L Q P O E R C T S L C A F I G O R Q E B O C O W Z U Q G O N N W P D O I V S R V W N V Y K M T N O U D B E A Z E H E S C Q N R I K T A Z I L U O J G T R T S D R L W E X T F O Y N R D V A P I N F R T Y C C S H M Y U T B N J O N H O K O E U W K H N G Q G S G W W T Z J O C Q L A N S U Z J M R N J Y T E F T G R A Q X B O W W L X E M R U Q O Q K E L I Z H P J G N F I I J P N W Q F U M B W F V O M W J V A D L E I F N O D D A H Y K N J Q T O D T W G A L T K P L A I N F I E L D A B K L O D M L Y X Y O R W X T D I D C X U V G E L I Z A B E T H T O W N M K K E T H Y T R T I P M O N E W G E R M A N T O W N M S T J L V S

Look for these post offices: * Source: New Jersey Postal History by Kay and Smith Allentown Hackettstown Plainfield Amboy Haddonfield Princeton Atsion Hamburg Rockaway Belvidere Middletown Point Salem Booneton Monmouth Shrewsbury Bordentown Moorestown Sparta Boundbrook Morristown Sussex Court House Bridgetown West Mount Holly Sweedsborough Brunswick Newark Trenton Burlington New Germantown Tuckerton Bustle Town New Mills Woodbridge Elizabeth Town Newtown Woodbury Flemington Pennington Woodstown Pittstown Post offices from this era not included in the puzzle are listed on the previous page.

New Jersey Summer Post Offices

Post offices open seasonally

Sperry Springs – Summer PO 1922-1966

Some of New Jersey’s post offices were open only in the summer, to serve cottage communities or shore towns where the population swelled in some months of the year, but did not warrant a post office for the rest of the year.

Some of these post offices began as summer offices, and were eventually turned into full-time offices. Others became DPOs as the community they served became less popular as a summer community. Others were served by a larger post office, as rural routes or branches.

As the puzzle does not allow numbers, the following were entered without the station numbers, and other descriptors have also been removed, due to lack of space. Ocean City Station 2 Asbury Park Station 1 Flatbrookville – Rural Of Columbia Ocean Grove Station 1 Asbury Park Station 5 Fortescue Ocean Grove Station 2 Asbury Park Station 8 “The Arcade” Green Pond – Rural Of Newfoundland Orange Station 1 Cranberry Lake – Rural Of Andover Keansburg Station 1 Orange Station 2

NJ SUMMER POST OFFICES

L 0 V A L S D Z J S A T S Y T I C N A E C O Z F S Y T W A P H V Q J G I Z Z Y X P J E J B V N S L L I M S R E I L L O C I S P R A Y B E A C H M R S W D N A L S I E R U S A E R T X W K H T E L N I S D N E S N W O T G B D J I Y L U I R L O A R J E D Q S P W W H Y R R P S R A D E C Y E V R A H S T M Z N E S Y A H X X T E K R F H A R W I C L K Y Z Z S P H E F Q O H L M Z D N V L P M Z A J Q P I K V B S W P N I P D F T W R G I C V T H T H S E K A L D N A L H G I H H P E A P P Y J M N W P H D R V I O L K R A P N A U Q S A N A M C C K A F L A N M S N O U J O C E A N G R O V E S T A G S R D S D H V O N A U J N O T G N I L R A H C A E B I D Q L A O F B J F G I D R N X W G R E E N W O O D F O R E S T V E V T F L G C T G Y M R P S O M E R S E T I N X U X U C D H N I U O Y Y E R V B E E U M Q U H C A E B T N A R B Q Z T I F H T F J N E E B E Q S K Y N B X L H L A D N A Y A W A W E K A L Y A E L V E A J S Z J Z G R A S S Y S O U N D M V J K Y K Z X N W R O T C H A W Q V U R F L A T B R O O K V I L L E N F P O U W C T H J L A Z Y M O A T S K R A P Y R U B S A S U O C U E N M E X R G A Q G N I T S O W A V I V Y Q S O H I N T H Y F Q A L E V Z K C E D A R B E A C H Y O B T V D Y D H J B R U S R L R J G O R A N G E S T A B Z R R F A M R K Z N W S M H D Y A J F F X M X L U T T I F K I A L D B W G X N K O I P Q C B V B E R K E L E Y F X G S D I J J Q I J C C A O Q C U T C B A G O H V B E K A L S R E V L U C D X B O B H Y C C X Y A X L W L R R T X W R H U X A W H B J T R I H B U A N E J H P A T X S A K D S H K U Z C D X F C U T I W L G M N D L D J T E K O F W S M I J K E A N S B U R G S T A O G B X V W K E Z L Y O H P S S S P E R R Y S P R I N G S H U X I P F O I H T V W R O E W W E E D I S E K A L W N Y K D Z A B Q B F M C Z E I Q Z N S S H R N N F EKALYRREBNARCNF C T K FM

* Source: Summer Post Office List by Chester M. Smith, Look for the following post offices: Jr. Asbury Park Sta Colliers Mills Highland Lakes Ocean Grove Sta Awosting Cranberry Lake Keansburg Sta Orange Sta Beach Arlington Culvers Lake Lake Wawayanda Ortley Berkeley Flatbrookville Lakeside Somersetin Brant Beach Glasser Lavallette Sperry Springs Byram Cove Grassy Sound Manasquan Park Spray Beach Caviar Green Pond Metedeconk The Arcade Cedar Beach Greenwood Forest Normandy Beach Townsends Inlet Chadwick Harvey Cedars Ocean City Sta Treasure Island As the puzzle does not allow numbers, some post offices were entered without the station numbers, and other descriptors have also been removed, due to lack of space. See the previous page for a list of the full names of these post offices

SOLUTIONS (red letters indicate diagonal words)

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57 WHAT IS THE NEW JERSEY POSTAL HISTORY SOCIETY?

THE NEW JERSEY POSTAL HISTORY SOCIETY (APS Affiliate #95) was established in 1972, to study and explore the many aspects of New Jersey postal history. The Society produces an award-winning quarterly journal which publishes articles on a variety of subjects relating to this theme. A black and white hardcopy is sent by mail, and each issue is available to download in PDF format, in color. A typical issue is 50-60 pages, full of illustrations and articles of interest on all areas of New Jersey postal history, from colonial to modern.

Visit our web site at www.NJPostalHistory.org where you can see the tables of contents of journals for the last seventeen years. A variety of literature is available at discounted prices to members, including our latest CD, The New Jersey Private Express Companies by Bruce Mosher – a fascinating study of the many private express companies which operated in New Jersey. A number of downloadable files are free to members, including 3 county histories and other files of postal interest to both NJ and US collectors – more are being added regularly.

We meet annually at NOJEX, New Jersey’s largest stamp show. Our journal provides you the opportunity to advertise directly to other members by listing two free journal adlets per year, for items you are looking for or items for sale.

We are happy to welcome new members, young and old. An application form is on the next page, or available online at our web site. Payment of our yearly dues of $15 can be made with personal check or online at Paypal – see the link on our website.

Contact Information:

Mr. Robert G. Rose, President, 18 Balbrook Drive, Mendham, NJ 07945, email either [email protected] or [email protected]

Jean Walton, Secretary, 125 Turtleback Rd., Califon, NJ 07830 Email either [email protected], or [email protected].

58 NJPHS Membership Application

Date: Name:

Mailing Address:

Telephone#: (____) ______Fax: ( _____ ) ______Email address: New Jersey Collecting Interests (Be as specific as you can as far as time periods, areas, topics or other specializations, etc.)

Philatelic Society Affiliations APS # Other societies:

Do you want your address published in our Membership Directory? Yes ______No May we publish your email address? Yes_____ No_____ May we use it to send you reminders? Yes____ No____ Signature ______New Member ___ Renewal______Fee Schedule - Annual Calendar Year Membership Dues

United States mailing address via 1st class mail $15.00 Foreign countries - choose one of 3 options Printed Matter Surface Mail rate $20.00 (Payment must be made in US dollars Air Mail Printed Matter rate $30.00 or can be made by Paypal) Online version only $15.00

Submission of a properly completed application with appropriate dues made payable in United States currency, to the New Jersey Postal History Society Inc. for the current calendar year entitles you to receive all issues in the current volume of the Journal, which may include back issues.

Mail to: Jean Walton, NJPHS Secretary 125 Turtleback Road Califon, NJ 07830-3511 Payment can also be made via Paypal – see our Web Site at www.NJPostalHistoroy.org for a link. Members are permitted two free adlets a year in the NJPH. Submit yours in 25 words or less [contact information is not included in 25 word limit - it is free]. Or submit a business card for us to reproduce. Contact [email protected] for more information. PB8-09

59 These puzzles can also be found on our web site at http://njpostalhistory.org/wordsearch.html where they can be printed out individually.

If you enjoyed learning a little about old post offices in New Jersey, you might want to visit our website at www.NJPostalHistory.org

There you will find pictures of some old post offices plus information on our Journal, NJPH.

For a better idea of what New Jersey postal history is all about, see the table of contents for our past issues

( http://www.njpostalhistory.org/njphs-table-of-contents.html ) .

Membership dues are only $15 a year, and include access to a number of free online files. Payment can be made by Paypal.