Muscle Ridge Shoals Township
Knox County, Maine
last update for this page: 8 June 2017
Maine Postal History
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Waterville Stamp Club
Postmarks from Muscle Ridge Shoals Township include:
Hurricane Island
1875 February 26:
Hurricane Island post office opened. (source: Maine Philatelic Society. 1995. The Post Offices of Maine: A Rarity Guide)
1880:
“A visitor to Hurricane Island in 1880 would arrive by steamboat, walk up the solid granite wharf by a large shed built for storing coal and wood, by the post office, Fulton’s Market and the [Hurricane Island Granite Co.] company store.” (source: p. 47 of Tombstones and Paving Blocks: The History of the Maine Granite Industry by Roger L. Grindle. 1977. Courier-Gazette, Inc.; Rockland, Maine)
1917 April 30:
Muscle Ridge Shoals Township post office closed. (source: Maine Philatelic Society. 1995. The Post Offices of Maine: A Rarity Guide)