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Postal Mail and Philately 📭 Historical Markers
Postal history, stamps, air mail, but not the Pony Express, which has its own series under Roads and Trails.
By William Fischer, Jr., October 13, 2012
Meyer Block and Marker
GEOGRAPHIC SORT WITH USA FIRST
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Some of the businesses that occupied this beautiful native stone building were a drug store, post office and jewelry store. — — Map (db m64871) HM |
| | This building is the original First Post Office west of the Allegheny Mountains. General Thomas Barbee commissioned first Post Master, August 20, 1792. Logs moved from Walnut Street to Constitution Square. Dedicated to the State of Kentucky by the . . . — — Map (db m121725) HM |
| | This original building built pre-1792, served as the first office west of the Alleghenies. On August 20, 1792, Thomas Barbee was commissioned postmaster. The first mail was received on November 3, 1792. The post office was moved here from its . . . — — Map (db m121726) HM |
| | Washington, Kentucky
First post-office for North-West Territory.
Mail distributed to seven states. 1789
Placed by
”Washington Study Club” — — Map (db m123609) HM |
| | This property has been
placed on the
National Register of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior — — Map (db m123416) HM |
| | Built 1911 as Federal Court House and Post Office, expanded in 1931. Remained in use as federal Building until 1972. Has housed Shreve Memorial Library's central branch since 1970s. Listed in National Register of Historic Places, 1974, when interior . . . — — Map (db m109763) HM |
| | The first official air mail flight between cities in the United States landed on the LSU athletic field April 10, 1912. After taking off from the City Park Race Course in New Orleans, aviator George Mestache flew a monoplane with a 32-pound pouch of . . . — — Map (db m87473) HM |
| | An excellent architectural example of Renaissance Eclecticism, this building was erected in 1894 as the U.S. Post Office. Renovated in 1935 it served as City Hall until 1955, when it was leased and remodeled by a private men's club. — — Map (db m87789) HM |
| | This post office was originally located at Colomb in St. James Parish from 1889 to 1915 when it was discontinued. It was later named Romeville Post Office.Post offices emerged inside of commissaries where people congregated and visited monthly for . . . — — Map (db m112059) HM |
| | Although a United States Post Office was established in New Iberia in 1814, local postal facilities were housed in rented space throughout the 19th century. In march 1899, through the efforts of Congressman Robert Broussard of New Iberia, congress . . . — — Map (db m87094) HM |
| | Sarah Jane Richmond, born in 1869, was appointed as
Grambling's first Postmistress on April 16, 1907, a post
she held for four years. She was also a founding
member of Grambling's first Chapter of the Order of
Eastern Star in 1944. Sarah's . . . — — Map (db m159071) HM |
| | Farmers from the north side of the Red River parked their wagons at Jessie Johnston's General Merchandise and Wagon Lot before they caught the ferry to Alexandria. 1905: Albert Rush and Jesse M. Kees purchased the store and continued to operate at . . . — — Map (db m129573) HM |
| | Built in the 1880s by Emar Andrepont, this building is typical of an old "general" country store. Originally built in the rural St. Landry Parish community of Prairie Ronde, the store operated for nearly 100 years. It was first owned by Emar, and . . . — — Map (db m107923) HM |
| | Chartered in 1919, the Bank of Addis was constructed the following year on land purchased from William Gassie, Jr., one of the original bank shareholders. In 1925 the Bank became a branch of the Port Allen Bank and Trust Company. Following the Stock . . . — — Map (db m85000) HM |
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Augusta's "Castle"! When first opened in 1890, the Portland Transcript called 295 Water Street "one of the most picturesque public buildings that the government has bestowed upon any city in the Union." Built of Hallowell granite and . . . — — Map (db m111133) HM |
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Long before the arrival of the first settlers, this area of the Kenduskeag served as a travel route and encampment site for Native Americans, hunters, trappers and explorers, and the young village of Condeskeag grew in the late 18th century . . . — — Map (db m110593) HM |
| | The Post Office and Customs House was built in 1857. Until then offices were housed in various businesses around town. The building still has many original features, including ornate fireplaces and iron fireproof shutters. Post Office Square . . . — — Map (db m59494) HM |
| | This structure, designed by James A. Wetmore and completed in 1932, is the second post office to occupy this site. Erected at a cost of $3.3 million, the neo-classical building, with its marble halls and paneled court-rooms, contained the most . . . — — Map (db m6160) HM |
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The Western Maryland Rail Road Station at Glyndon was built in 1895 of Baltimore County white marble with a red tile roof. Destroyed by fire on December 24, 1903, the building was replaced in 1904 with the present brick structure. On June 7, . . . — — Map (db m82281) HM |
| | In the United States was inaugurated by the post office department on December 20, 1899 covering the whole of Carroll County and small parts of adjacent counties with Westminster as the central distributing point. — — Map (db m3023) HM |
| | Built in 1888, this Queen Anne building was constructed to house the Valley Saving Bank (VSB) until 1923, and then served as a U.S. Post Office until the 1960s. When the Post Office relocated, the building began functioning as a private residence. . . . — — Map (db m107653) HM |
| | In many ways the Town of Oakland owes its early development as one of Garrett County's largest towns and as the county seat to the arrival of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. In 1851 the railroad meandered through the Youghiogheny Glades on its way . . . — — Map (db m153147) HM |
| | Erected in ca. 1798, the Federal style Bentley House was the first substantial structure to be built in Brookeville. In 1814 it was the home of Caleb and Henrietta Bentley. Caleb was the town's first postmaster and merchant, and the house includes a . . . — — Map (db m76398) HM |
| | In 1887, the Metropolitan Investment and Building Company laid out the town, named after Robert W. Garrett, President of the B. & O. Railroad. It was to be primarily residential, a short commuter train ride to Washington, D.C. Now, over one hundred . . . — — Map (db m103292) HM |
| | In 1860 James Holland purchased this land and built the general store that still stands today. Located at the intersection of the toll roads to Baltimore and Olney, the store was at the heart of a community that became known as Holland's Corner. . . . — — Map (db m49924) HM |
| | Silver Spring During the Civil War
If you has used our post office between 1937 and 1981 you would have seen a mural depicting a possible Civil War scenario.
Opened on March 1, 1937, the Georgian Revival style Silver Spring post office at . . . — — Map (db m76411) HM |
| | [Panel 1:] Blair Mansion: Silver Spring
Prior to the development of modern Silver Spring, this immediate area was a bucolic, rural landscape in a portion of Montgomery County then known as Sligo. The property was owned by Francis . . . — — Map (db m23488) HM |
| | In May 1918, the first U.S. Airmail was inaugurated using Army pilots and planes. Three months later, the Post Office Department took over the operations and started the first postal airmail service from College Park on August 12, 1918. Max Miller . . . — — Map (db m115073) HM |
| | The following notable events occurred on this airfield
1909 - Wilbur Wright instructed first flying officers of Signal Corps, U. S. Army
1911 - First Army flying school established here
First bombsite tested from an aircraft
1912 - . . . — — Map (db m115074) HM |
| | The original water-powered textile mill. "Clifton factory," built in 1812, was rebuilt as a flour mill in 1900 by John Thomas Cecil. Historic district also includes Cecil's Country Store and post office built in 1906. — — Map (db m16792) HM |
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Early tenants included the U.S. Post Office, New England Telephone and Telegraph, Cape and Vineyard Electric Co., Barnstable County National Bank, F.W. Woolworth, & W.T. Grant. The West Barnstable Brick Company provided Many Of The Original . . . — — Map (db m142677) HM |
| | Populated by members of the Morse family since the early 1700's, this section of Foxborough was known as Morseville. By 1737, Jedediah Morse had dammed the Neponset River forming Crack Rock Pond and built both a saw mill and a bloomery forge near . . . — — Map (db m55879) HM |
| | Originally settled as Paineburgh, taking its name from the many members of the Paine family who settled here, this section of Foxborough had a strong sense of community with its own elementary school, chapel, railroad station and Post Office. . . . — — Map (db m55870) HM |
| | This road is the first mail route in North America, established in 1673 by King Charles II of England. In 1767, while Benjamin Franklin was Postmaster General, mileage was marked out with stone markers from Boston to New York City. — — Map (db m18561) HM |
| | New Richmond got its start in 1836, when three eastern investors, led by John Allen of Ann Arbor, arranged to found a city here. John Allen, a Virginian by birth, purchased 2240 acres in Allegan County on the north side of the Kalamazoo River just . . . — — Map (db m73573) HM |
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This location served as the post office for Petoskey from 1918 until 1962 when it was decided that Petoskey needed a new facility due to the growth of the surrounding townships. The post office was razed and the location moved to 216 State Street. . . . — — Map (db m97978) HM |
| | Natural features have often played a role in the naming of communities. One such settlement was Big Rock. Named after a massive boulder, this hamlet was located at the crossroads of present-day M-32 and Thornton Road. Seth Gillet became the first . . . — — Map (db m33279) HM |
| | The original house was built on this site in 1825 for Dr. Ezekiel Webb, Farmington's first physician. Dr. Webb was appointed as Farmington's first postmaster in 1826. This house served as a Post Office, physician's office and as a residence for the . . . — — Map (db m85098) HM |
| | In 1846 Major F. Lockwood built a dam and sawmill on Pettibone Creek northeast of Livingston and Harvey Lake Roads. This sawmill supplied lumber to Highland's earliest settlers until it burned in 1863. In 1867 Chester Chatfield build a cider mill at . . . — — Map (db m20487) HM |
| | In 1848, in response to pressure from the settlers of Holland, the U.S. Congress created the community's first post office, with Henry D. Post as postmaster. Originally named Black River, the Holland post office relocated to rented quarters several . . . — — Map (db m64907) HM |
| | Rogers City's art deco-style Post Office was built in 1940 at a cost of $60,365. The photo shows the building shortly after it opened in 1940. Both the exterior and interior have changed little during the intervening years.
One of the highlights . . . — — Map (db m123754) HM |
| | The 1938 Lincoln Park Post Office was the first non-branch post office in this Detroit suburb. Erected by the United States Treasury Department, the building marked Lincoln Park's coming of age as a city with a large enough population to warrant its . . . — — Map (db m87156) HM |
| | Itasca grew up around an Indian trading post which was established 800 feet east of here in 1849 by Thomas A. Holmes and James Beatty. At the suggestion of Territorial Governor Alexander Ramsey, the settlement was named in honor of Lake Itasca, the . . . — — Map (db m69908) HM |
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The federal government erected the post office building in 1910, designed by James Knox Taylor, the supervising architect of the United States Treasury. Although the city's postal service began in 1856, it had been located in rented space . . . — — Map (db m74074) HM |
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The village of Golden Gate occupied this area for some years. The town took its name from the U.S. Post Office established in 1868 with Ebenezer Fuller in charge.
Construction of a water-powered grist mill on Spring Creek in 1869 by . . . — — Map (db m70993) HM |
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Built 1916
This property recognized by
Heritage Preservation Commission — — Map (db m78309) HM |
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has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
and St. Cloud Heritage
Preservation Commission — — Map (db m78090) HM |
| | Oldest building in Natchez. Standing before 1789. Operated as a tavern, stage stop, and mail station at the end of Natchez Trace. Now owned and restored by the Pilgrimage Garden Club of Natchez. — — Map (db m127081) HM |
| | Oldest commercial building on Jeff Davis Avenue. Built in 1924 by Hancock County Bank as its second branch. Located in Long Beach primarily to serve this area's growing truck farming industry. Because of the Great Depression, the branch was moved in . . . — — Map (db m81049) HM |
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Becker's first Post Office
building operating from
1920 until early 1960s.
Given to the
Amory Regional Museum
by
Mr. Hershel Sandlin
in memory of his wife
Mrs. Kay Sandlin — — Map (db m102616) HM |
| | Named for a Chickasaw word meaning “tree root,” Tockshish was a community of Indians and white men on the Natchez Trace to the northwest. John McIntosh, British agent to the Choctaws, first settled there before 1770.
In 1801, . . . — — Map (db m84818) HM |
| | In June 1848, Benjamin Lampton and his brother-in-law Cullen Conerly established a post office here in Lampton's mercantile business. Situated on Dry Creek between Conerly's Mill and Tyler's Mill, the store and post office served as the social . . . — — Map (db m115476) HM |
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This building was the post office from 1874-90. Other tenants included an insurance agency, a variety store, a shoe shop, and the Commercial Bank (1912). Since 1955 it has been a radio and TV shop, photo shop, telephone office, watch repair shop, . . . — — Map (db m88423) HM |
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No record available of when 120 First St. was built. From 1902 to 1907 it was a post office. From 1907 to 1930 a grocery store. On July 26, 1909 Carrie Nation gave a lecture in front about the evils of alcohol. It has been an electrical shop, . . . — — Map (db m88428) HM |
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This oldest building downtown stands on the original Pleasant Hill land grant of 1854 with a 126 years of continuous use.
In the 19th century, it was a furniture store and the town post office.
In the 20th century, it housed grocery stores, . . . — — Map (db m88415) HM |
| | Near this spot was located the first post office in Springfield, in a one story, hewed log cabin, occupied by John Polk Campbell, who was appointed postmaster, Jan. 3, 1834. Mail was brought on horseback twice a month from Harrison's Store, on . . . — — Map (db m43120) HM |
| | After Walt Disney's death in December of 1966, the citizens of Marceline lobbied the United States Postal Department to issue a commemorative stamp to his honor. The postal department agreed to issue the stamp. After the issuance of the stamp was . . . — — Map (db m67165) HM |
| | was placed on the
National Register of
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
October 8, 2009
— — Map (db m119697) HM |
| | "The first term of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the District of St. Charles was held on the first Tuesday in January, 1805, in the house of Dr. Antoine Reynal on the site of the present courthouse." The "present" courthouse of . . . — — Map (db m124826) HM |
| | An earlier two-story structure, known as the Old Benne Building built by Joseph C. Easton circa 1840, was replaced by this building in 1882. The new Second Empire /Italianate building with its parade balcony and bracketed cornices and pediments was . . . — — Map (db m124825) HM |
| | In 1920, city officials used park land to build a runway for the new St. Louis to Chicago airmail service. Although the service operated for less than one year, the area is still known as Aviation Field. — — Map (db m139726) HM |
| | Owney, the 'unofficial' mascot of the United State Postal Service, was the first dog to travel around the world. During the late 1800's Owney traveled with mail carriers first on mail trucks, then steamships. While traveling around the world, Owney . . . — — Map (db m132896) HM |
| | By 1898 a 10-foot wide road was built through the Gallatin Canyon to Taylors Fork and the park line. In 1911 a crude, narrow wagon road went to "Yellowstone" (West Yellowstone), 90 miles from the county seat at Bozeman. In 1926, the road was . . . — — Map (db m113833) HM |
| | The first post office in Deer Lodge was established on May 21, 1866. It was one of the earliest post offices in Montana. Mail service to the early settlers of the Deer Lodge Valley was very expensive and very slow. Letters and parcels were either . . . — — Map (db m128356) HM |
| | When construction began on Hamilton’s post office in August 1940, the worst of the Depression was over. Nevertheless, the building is a legacy of the New Deal, when the number of federal construction projects soared to put people to work. Montana . . . — — Map (db m123552) HM |
| | Originally designed as a U.S. Post Office and Court House, the Grand Island Federal Building opened on November 26, 1910. It was designed by James Knox Taylor and cost $108,000. The 1935 west-wing addition was designed by local architect, Charles . . . — — Map (db m53250) HM |
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Site of the
First Rural Free Delivery
Mail Route In Nebraska
On November 7, 1896 — — Map (db m48212) HM |
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In 1874 construction began on Lincoln's first U.S. Post Office and Courthouse on a block originally intended as a market square. The building was completed by 1879 at a cost of about. $200,000. Alfred B. Mullet, supervising architect of the U.S. . . . — — Map (db m66884) HM |
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During the 1930s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal created government programs to counter the effects of the Great Depression. Hundreds of post offices were built and the U.S. Treasury commissioned art for many of them. Twelve Nebraska . . . — — Map (db m78462) HM |
| | The original site of Beaver Crossing was located about three miles to the northwest. Here a trail from Nebraska City to Fort Kearny crossed Beaver Creek. John Leonard and Daniel Millspaugh were the first settlers in this area in 1862. Roland Reed . . . — — Map (db m76748) HM |
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This imposing public structure, the former United States Post Office and Courthouse, represents the first federal office building constructed in the State of Nevada.
Construction began in late 1888 and was completed in 1891 at a cost of $138, . . . — — Map (db m101827) HM |
| | Founded in 1904 as Goodsprings Junction, a station on the San Pedro, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake Railroad, Jean received its current name in 1905 when the post office was opened. It was named in honor of Jean Fayle, the wife of George Fayle who had . . . — — Map (db m129575) HM |
| | John Steele, one of the original L. D. S. missionaries, secured a mail grant for the Las Vegas Mission. The documents to establish the Post Office, and, appointing William Bringhurst Postmaster, were brought from Salt Lake City by Benjamin H Hulse, . . . — — Map (db m29294) HM |
| | This property
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
United States Post Office
and Courthouse
c.1933 — — Map (db m47746) HM |
| | On April 6, 1926, Varney Air Lines pilot Leon Cuddeback, carrying one bag of mail, landed his tiny Curtis Swallow bi-plane at Elko, Nevada, completing the first scheduled air mail run in the United States.
The single engine, 90-horsepower . . . — — Map (db m1371) HM |
| | Constructed on Sherman Creek in Huntington Valley, 60 miles south of Elko, by rancher Valentine Walther. It took Walther, family and friends seven years to complete and was finished in 1903. The house served as a home, post office, stage stop and . . . — — Map (db m1431) HM |
| | Known originally as Lime Point, this area was first settled about 1880. The early camp was abandoned by 1882. In March 1908, a silver strike brought a new camp into existence. Called Hornsilver, it flourished for about a year, boasting about 800 . . . — — Map (db m34251) HM |
| | Formerly known as Six Mile Station, this stage stop and way station provided service between some of the smaller mining camps and Aurora and Bodie, CA during the late 1860's. The area became of greater importance with the arrival of the Carson . . . — — Map (db m37630) HM |
| | . . . — — Map (db m113756) HM |
| | This property has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
— — Map (db m126496) HM |
| | Nation's Oldest Continuously Operating Post Office Building since 1816 — — Map (db m152180) HM |
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This marble-fronted edifice has been the town’s Post Office since February 14, 1935.
The mansion of Dr. William J. Beattie (1865-1913), a founder of Littleton Hospital, had occupied the site before the construction of this Georgian Revival . . . — — Map (db m116229) HM |
| | The home of Gates Flying Circus. Teterboro built Fokker tri-motors flown by Richard E. Byrd over the North Pole (1926); South Pole (1929); Atlantic (1927); and by Amelia Earhart over Atlantic (1928). Clarence Chamberlin, Ruth Nichols, Floyd Bennett, . . . — — Map (db m6863) HM |
| | Frederick Wortendyke IV built this house between 1812 – 1825 to replace an older home near-by. It stands on land purchased in 1775 by his grandfather Frederick Jr. of Park Ridge. The family operated a general store on the opposite side of . . . — — Map (db m22252) HM |
| | Oldest portion built by Joshua Borton Circa 1800 Owners: Gilbert Page, General Store & PO. 3rd Postmaster 1813 – 1839 Ebenezer Roberts Late 1800. — — Map (db m35963) HM |
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These were the last years of the Atlantic City Railroad. What began as an amazing accomplishment ended heroically some 124 years later and spanned a century and a quarter 1877 to 1001. Hundreds of passengers a week had been carried "express" at . . . — — Map (db m146747) HM |
| | Established in 1880 by the Farley family, the Post stayed in the family for 100 years. It has served as Post Office, General Store and focal point for the Village of Mountainville. — — Map (db m16670) HM |
| | The South Amboy Post Office was located here in 1912. From this post office the First Air Mail Delivery Flight in New Jersey was undertaken. This event was the brainchild of Assistant Postmaster Edwin Roddy, also a member of the South Amboy’s . . . — — Map (db m93915) HM |
| | The original post office of Woodbridge, established July 31, 1792, was located at the Cross Keys Tavern on the northwest corner of Amboy Avenue and Main Street. The first postmaster appointed by Postmaster General Timothy Pickering was the Honorable . . . — — Map (db m19888) HM |
| | United States Post Office
Woodbridge, New Jersey 07095
On November 15, 1969, after probably many more than seven documented relocations, the Post Office was relocated at the present site at 60 Main Street, with 9,650 sq. ft. enlarged space. . . . — — Map (db m125438) HM |
| | Built 1937 by Sherman Construction, Passaic N.J. Designed by Louis A. Simons supervising architect for the Dept. of the Treasury 1933-1939. A cast stone portrait of Benjamin Franklin by artist Sterling Calder is in the lobby. An excellent of example . . . — — Map (db m94673) HM |
| | The company store was a center of village life for over 160 years, containing not only a wide assortment of merchandise, but also the post office and company bookkeeper’s office. Purchases at the store were deducted from workers’ . . . — — Map (db m65910) HM |
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This property
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
— — Map (db m153713) HM |
| | Early history describes this building as a single structure, which when researched proves to not be entirely accurate. The structure is comprised of two separate entities joined together circa 1889. The first of these, the small rear two-story . . . — — Map (db m97737) HM |
| | Roswell’s first general store and post office stood near this spot. The building was constructed by Van C. Smith in 1870 and hosted a somewhat famous postmaster, Ash Upton, who was a political player in the Lincoln County War and the ghost writer . . . — — Map (db m102896) HM |
| | Built in 1879, this building has been a mercantile, pharmacy, grocery, post office and telephone exchange. Site No. 1304
A Registered Cultural Property State of New Mexico — — Map (db m38296) HM |
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Old Schoharie Road
Built at close of Revolution
First Post Office of
West Guilderland as
this place was then called
— — Map (db m49847) HM |
| | Built ca 1856 at junction of Ellicottville-Great Valley Plank Road & road to Franklinville. Served as hotel, livery & post office — — Map (db m95789) HM |
| | Formerly Adriance Post Office. Isaac Adriance a settler about 1740, after whom post office was originally named. — — Map (db m89086) HM |
| | This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m82094) HM |
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