Join Desert Museum botany staff and docents on Mt. Lemmon for a day filled with butterflies and flowers! Next Saturday (August 20), we will focus on the identification of the butterflies that we spot and their relationships with flowering plants and trees.
In 1832 Jed Jackson had the contract for carrying mail from Brantford to London twice a week along the Old Stage Road. On October 6, 1835, a post office was established at Woodstock, Ontario, with Princeton following within two years. According to the Legislative Council Sessional Papers for 1846, a post office was established at Princeton on May 6, 1836 and Jeremiah Cowin was appointed postmaster on May 9, 1837. The sureties were George Beamer and Silas Martin to the amount of Â£200. The assistant was John Charles.
In North America, the mail system began in the late 1600s when mail was carried by friends, merchants, and Native Americans. It was in 1673 when Governor Francis Lovelace created a monthly post between New York and Boston. Later, in 1683, William Penn opened Pennsylvaniaâs first post office.These systems were all very individualized and were not very well constructed, usually relying on some third party to continue the transporting of mail.or example, in 1896, the Post Office experimented with the âhorseless buggy,â long before many people even were aware of its existence, all in an effort to speed up the mail delivery. Through the early 19th century, mail service to the west coast was very limited.