210 Main Street, Marrick, in the old post office.

Call 555-0142

The collection: The Landing

A worn leather ledger with a paper label reading Post Office 1893.

Alder Marrick's postmaster's ledger

Acc. 1981.012.3

The Landing · main floor

The first page lists eleven letters.

Alder Marrick kept the landing store and the post office. His ledger records every letter that came up the lake from 1893 to 1902, and the town took his name.

The families in this story.

In the archives

  • about 1912 · photo

    The SS Wenlock at the landing

    Freight and mail coming ashore at the town wharf.

  • 1893 to 1902 · record

    Alder Marrick, postmaster

    The landing store, the first post office and the ledger.

Come see the originals.

It's in The Landing, on the main floor. Ask at the counter and we'll tell you more about it.

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