Ochopee Post Office - thanks Alyce

Big thank you to Alyce who sent me these photos. I met Alyce when I taught in Milwaukee and I also met Karen, who found this little post office and sent the photos to Alyce. Isn't it adorable.

Here is the wording on the brass plaque pictured on the postcard. 

Ochopee Post Office

Considered to be the smallest post office in the United States, this building was formerly an irrigation pipe shed belonging to the J.T.Gaunt Company tomato farm. It was hurriedly pressed into service by postmaster Sidney Brown after a disastrous night fire in 1953 burned Ochopee’s general store and post office. The present structure has been in continuous use ever since as both a post office and ticket station for Trailway bus lines and still services residents in a three-county area including deliveries to Seminole and Miccosukee Indians living in the regions. Daily business often includes requests from tourists and stamp collectors the world over for the famed Ochopee postmark. The property was acquired by the Wooten Family in 1992.

Thanks Alyce and Karen -- we *heart* all things postal.

Here is a link to their website - it includes a map - so you can get a feel for where it is.

https://www.postallocations.com/fl/ochopee/ochopee

Or I guess I can add these screen shots -- it's cool to see the setting.