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Bulloch History with Roger Allen: Nation, Georgia set up Rural Free Delivery mail routes
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Roger Allen
Note: The following is one of a series of columns looking at the establishment of the postal system in the nation, southeast Georgia and Bulloch County. A Congressional resolution passed on Dec. 16, 1823 declared that there were to be 48 “Distributing Post Offices” (or DSOs) established. In Georgia, they were opened in Augusta, the Creek Agency and Savannah.
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