PI 168 Description:
124. INDEXES TO REGISTERS FOR STAR ROUTE CONTRACTS. 1830-74, 1883-87, 1901-60. 68 vols. and unbound papers. 51 ft.
The backstrip of each volume shows the contract years and the States covered. Each volume contains an alphabetical list of post offices connected by star routes, with the county and State in which each post office is located and the mail-route number or numbers of the post office. In some cases the index shows name changes of post offices; dates of establishment, discontinuance, and reopening of post offices after the Civil War; whether post offices were privately maintained or located on special routes; and the annual cost of certain mail route services.
Volumes marked “1855-1859 Virginia,” “1855-1859 Georgia,” and “1855-1860 Ohio” also give the terminal points of the routes. Some of the registers are described in entry 125.
The volumes are arranged chronologically by contract term and thereunder geographically by State. For the period 1903-60 the records are on 3″ x 5″ cards.
National Archives Identifier (NAID): 2663194
This Series is not online.
Nara Catalog: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/2663194
This Series has not been microfilmed.
Sample Pages from Volume 1:
