Physical description
.1 PHOTOCOPY OF HISTORY OF GLENDONALD POST OFFICE
GLENDONALD POST OFFICE WAS OPENED ON 15 JANUARY 1868, AND WAS MADE A RECEIVING OFFICE ON 19 AUGUST 1894. IT WAS CLOSED ON 1 JULY 1917. IT USED BARRED NUMERAL CANCEL 639.
GLENDONALD WAS A SMALL RURAL SETTLEMENT LOCATED ON THE INTERSECTION OF TH CRESWICK-CLUNES ROAD AND MINER'S REST-CASTLEMAINE ROAD BETWEEN CLUNES AND CRESWICK. IT WAS SITED AT THE FOOT OF CATTLE STATION HILL. BETWEEN 1874 AND 1885 THE POST OFFICE WAS CONDUCTED BY THE CATTLE STATION STATE SCHOOL HEADMASTER
POST OFFICERS AT GLENDONALD WERE:
WILLIAM B. LANGDON 1868
E S LANGDON 1868 - 1870
ELISABETH GOOD 1870-1874
ALEXANDER GILLIAN 1874-1885
ARTHUR W BEAN 1885
CHARLOTTE VALINS 1885
THOMAS DUNSTON 1885-1894
ELIZABETH PEARCY 1894-1901
EDWARD PEARCY 1901-1913
NOT KNOWN 1913-1917
.2PHOTOCOPY OF HISTORY OF GLENGOWER/MIDDLE CREEK POST OFFICE
GLENGOWER POST OFFICE OPENED ON 13 JANUARY 1868 AS MIDDLE CREEK. ITS NAME WAS CHANGED ON 1 JUNE 1881, WHEN IT BECAME A RECEIVING OFFICE. A MIDDLE CREEK POST OFFICE WAS OPENED NEAR ARARAT IN 1881 AND THE POSTMASTER GENERAL HAD A POLICY OF NOT HAVING POST OFFICES HAVING THE SAME NAME. GLENGOWER WAS UPGRADED TO POST OFFICE ON 1 JULY 1927, IT CLOSED ON 30 JUNE 1952
BARRED NUMERAL CANCEL 632 WAS USED AT GLENGOWER
POST OFFICERS AT GLENGOWER WERE:
S IRWIN 1868-1869
DONALD FRASER 1869-1871
JOHN KEMP 1871-1873
JOHN NEWTON 1873-1876
W POTTER 1876-1887
ANNIE MCIVOR 1887-1892
JESSIE MCIVOR 1892-??
UNKNOWSN ????-1927
DJ FRASER 1927-1939
JAMES CAMPBELL 1939-1952
