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"
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[R. Merrill]||
Postmaster||
July 29, 1837|\n|-\n|
Discontinued||
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December 29, 1843|\n|-\n|
Reestablished||
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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]||
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June 18, 1858|\n|-\n|
Name changed back to Merrillsville||
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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]||
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February 16, 1882|\n</tbody> |}