The Freedom Post Office was established in 1832; its first postmaster was Stephen Phillips, and its location was lower Fifth Street, between Third Avenue and the Pennsylvania Railroad. Its city delivery was established on October 17, 1921.
The former locations of the Post Office were in the following order: Lower Fifth Street, 512 Third Avenue, 562 Third Avenue, 536 Third Avenue in the Gerheim Building which was destroyed by a fire in May of 1927, 603 Third Avenue, the present position of the Freedom National Bank. (This position was established in 1927.)
Stephen Philips and
James McConnell 1832
Dr. William Smith 1836
Dr. T. F. Robinson 1840
Henry Bryan 1844
Frederick Schumacher 1845
William P. Phillips 1850
John Graham 1854
W. W. Kerr 1858
W. D. Fisher 1871
Thomas C. Kerr 1880
Francis M. Grim 1886
James L. Conner 1890
William G. Jack 1894
W illiam D. Hamilton 1898
Arthur Rider 1904
H. D. Jackson 1913
Henry G. Schleiter 1914
Roy Rhodes 1923
Willis C. Jack 1935
Robert G. Kronk 1951
to present
The Freedom Post Office will be changing its present location sometime in the near future to Eighth Street.