Hello:

A specialized area of New York State history is POSTAL HISTORY, the
study of the post offices, mail routes, etc in New York State.  The
Empire State Postal History Society has a website dedicated to this
area.  It can be found at http://www.esphs.org .

Every month we have 4 interesting items from NYS postal history.
This month (May 2004), we have 18th Century items from
Canajoharie, Geneva and Steuben.  The Steuben item is interesting
because the post office only existed for about 5 months before its
name was changed to Rome. We believe it was the first discontinued
post office in NYS under the Federal postal sysem.

The ESPHS was founded in 1967 and currently has about 200
members scattered throughout the state.

Glenn Estus