Merrillsville Post Office
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, June 12, 2004
Merrillsville Post Office
By [Riley]
Franklin Falls may have been the earliest settlement in the town of Franklin, founded in about 1827, but [[1]] was settled a couple of years later and boasted the earliest United States Post Office in Franklin Township, which was established on July 29, 1837.
In 1831, a 24 year-old man by the name of John Robertson Merrill came over from Vermont with a group of friends and built the [Inn], which still stands today in pretty much its original condition. The inn was the site of that early post office, and of course, Merrill was named postmaster. . . .
This list of Post Offices, transcribed by Teresa R. Eshelman from information from the National Archives, is given in Volume IV (1991) of the [of Franklin] journal, "[Told Me So]."
class="wikitable" [R. Merrill]| Postmaster| July 29, 1837|\n|-\n Discontinued| | December 29, 1843|\n|-\n Reestablished| | March 26, 1844|\n|-\n [D. Merrill]| Postmaster| January 4, 1855|\n|-\n [A. Smith]| Postmaster| June 18, 1858|\n|-\n Name changed to [Home]| | June 18, 1858|\n|-\n Name changed back to Merrillsville| | between 1858 and 1861|\n|-\n [Merrill]| Postmaster,| July 5, 1861|\n|-\n [B. Lyman]| Postmaster| December 20, 1864|\n|-\n [W. Merrill]| Postmaster| May 24, 1867|\n|-\n [J. Ayres]| Postmaster| December 16, 1868|\n|-\n [W. Littlejohn]| Postmaster| June 17, 1869|\n|-\n [W. Chase]| Postmaster| April 4, 1881|\n|-\n Name changed to [Lake]| | February 16, 1882|\n</tbody>