Poway, CA - 92064
Posted by: 
LeoGeo
N 32° 57.489 W 117° 02.219
11S E 496543 N 3646648
Poway, CA 92064: A town northeast of San Diego
Waymark Code: WMA33R
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 11/08/2010
Views: 6
The Poway post office, though a large building, has only a tiny indoor customer-service area, in the extreme northeast corner. The rest of the east side of the building is a roofed "front porch", with a metal fence along the outside edge, housing banks and banks of post office boxes. The cupola on top, and other architectural details, make it look like an an Old West ranch house "on steroids."
The name "Poway" is thought to be related to a phrase in Diegueño, the local indigenous language, meaning "the meeting of the valleys."
I'm not sure when this post office was built, but there has been a post office here at least since the 1880s, when it was served by stagecoach, and later, rail. The town itself was incorporated only recently, in 1980. The region has been inhabited for thousands of years; many archeological finds have been made in the area.
Type of structure:: stand-alone
re-enter Zip Code here:: 92064
Current Status:: Still in Use
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