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Photographer: J. J. Prats Postcard Collection
Caption: Post Office and Federal Court, Martinsburg, W. Va.
Additional Description: “This imposing three-story building, on the corner of King street and Maple avenue, was erected in 1895 by Uncle Sam at a cost of $85,000. The first floor is used as the local post office, where thirty-four men are employed and nine city and six rural routes are served. Before this building was erected the post office was located on East Burke street. The second and third stories serve the Federal Court of the Northern District of West Virginia, which is composed of twenty-four counties. It as in this building that Grady Webb, the famous mail train robber, was tried and convicted.” 1925 postcard published by the Shenandoah Publishing House in Strasburg, Virginia.
Submitted: September 28, 2008, by J. J. Prats of Powell, Ohio.
Database Locator Identification Number: p37057
File Size: 1.634 Megabytes

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