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Leck Kill Post Office Building, Leck Kill, Pa.

Leck Kill Post Office Building, Leck Kill, Pa.
A photo of mail carriers, post offices, mailboxes, etc. for the Vintage Photos Theme Park.

This is an early twentieth-century real photo postcard showing four men and a boy posing in front of a building. The boy is holding the reins of two horses hitched to a wagon, and a variety of items, including benches, barrels, and tools, are visible on the porch and on the ground in front of the building.

After scanning and enlarging the photo, I was able to read the lettering on the window in the middle of the building and discovered that it served as the "Leck Kill Post Office" (see a close-up view of the window).

Leck Kill is a small community located in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, and its Wikipedia entry indicates that the post office there closed in 2004. Amazingly enough, I was able to find a 2009 view of the building on Google Maps (see my composite image of old and new views).

A 2018 online real estate listing provided additional details: "Property at one time was used for the local post office with a store and tavern. Presently used as a home with apartment and still has P.O. space." So it's possible that the post office in the building was still in use as late as 2004.

Leck Kill Post Office Building, Leck Kill, Pa. (Detail)

Leck Kill Post Office Building, Leck Kill, Pa.—Then and Now

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 RicksPics
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Wow. Interesting that you found the Google photo of the building. Apart from the missions there are few standing building here in California that date back to the 19th century.
4 years ago.

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