Former Post Office - Wheat Ridge, CO 80033
N 39° 46.858 W 105° 07.565
13S E 489203 N 4403455
Former and first post office of Wheat Ridge, CO. #9000
Waymark Code: WMT41N
Location: Colorado, United States
Date Posted: 09/21/2016
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In 1994 The Wheat Ridge Historical Society saved the First Post Office in Wheat Ridge.
In 1913 Mr. Fred Bunger, a local farmer, petitioned the U.S. Postal Service to establish a Post Office in Wheat Ridge on his farm across from the Wheat Ridge School. (Now Wheat Ridge Junior High School).He became the first Postmaster. The first library in the city was located in a corner of the building in an old trunk. Mrs. Ruth Richardson was the librarian as a teenager and contributed much of the history of the building. The building now houses the research library for the museum. It is used often by scholars for research on local history of Wheat Ridge and Jefferson County.
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Type of structure:: stand alone
re-enter Zip Code here:: 80033
Current Status:: Former Historic Location
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