DUCK CREEK (Old, Old) – an unincorporated community situated near the vicinity of the present Barnes Bridge Rd. crossing of Duck Creek. This neighborhood encompassed parts of today’s Mesquite and Sunnyvale.
The first Post Office was apparently located in a store operated by Henry K. Valentine out of his home on the H. K. Valentine Survey along what had been (between 1844 and 1846) the Central National Road of the Republic of Texas. The later became Barnes Bridge Rd. in that area.
| Official | Title | Appointed |
| Henry K. Valentine | Postmaster | 20 Jul 1848 |
| Discontinued on 28 Jul 1851
Reestablished on 26 Sep 26, 1854 |
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| Wm. M. Lyons | Postmaster | 26 Sep1854 |
| Alex W. Webb | Postmaster | 07 Mar 1860 |
| Alex W. Webb | Postmaster | 13 Mar 1862 (CSA) |
| Discontinued on 5 Nov 1866 | ||
DUCK CREEK (Old) – began as a diffuse settlement spread primarily along the west side of said creek between present-day Kingsley Road and Walnut St., an area enveloped by today’s Garland city limits. Its nucleus developed near the present creek crossings of avenues B and D, some seven miles northwest of the earlier Duck Creek Post office. While the exact location of the post office here under Emily Strother is not known, news accounts indicate that it was reestablished in 1878 under William Alexander in his store.
| Reestablished on 12 Nov 1877 | ||
| Official | Title | Appointed |
| Mrs. Emily Strother | Postmaster | 12 Nov 1877 |
| Discontinued on 8 Apr 1878
Reestablished on 22 Aug 1878 |
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| William M. Alexander | Postmaster | 22 Aug 1878 |
| Kelley H. Embree | Postmaster | 22 May 1883 |
| Jesse B. Alexander | Postmaster | 27 Mar 1884 |
| Jefferson D. Robinson | Postmaster | 14 Jan 188 |
EMBREE – Post Office name changed from Duck Creek to Embree on 01 Feb 1887.
Embree was an unincorporated town developed in 1886 by the Santa Fe railroad and centered near the present BNSF (Santa Fe) crossings of Avenues B and D. After fire ravaged Old Duck Creek’s business district in January 1887, its post office was discontinued in favor of one in a store in nearby Embree, less than a mile to the east and now included within today’s Garland city limits. The postmaster, Jefferson D. Robinson, had relocated his business to Embree and retained the appointment.
| Official | Title | Appointed |
| Jefferson D. Robinson | Postmaster | 02 Jan 18 |
Name changed from Embree to GARLAND on 09 Dec 1887
GARLAND – an initially unincorporated combination of Embree and New Duck Creek. Garland incorporated in 1891.
| Official | Title | Appointed |
| Jefferson D. Robinson | Postmaster | 09 Dec 1887 |
| Henry Noetzli | Postmaster | 02 Oct 1890 |
| Charles H. Miller | Postmaster | 08 Apr 1892 |
| Ada Martin | Postmaster | 07 Oct 1893 |
| Richard C. Wyatt | Postmaster | 29 Sep 1897 |
| George W. Crossman | Postmaster | 23 Feb 1905 |
| Nora Lemmon | Postmaster | 22 May 1913 |
| Grace Lemmon | Postmaster | 08 Mar 1918 |
| Abram Quessenberry | Postmaster | 12 Apr 1922 |
| Curtis D. Crossman | Postmaster | 22 Dec 1922 |
| Mrs. Lottie E. Watson | Acting Postmaster | 15 Apr 1935 |
| Frank Benton Crush | Acting Postmaster | 01 Jan 1936 |
| Frank Benton Crush | Postmaster | 31 Jan 1936 |
| James D. Wheeler Jr. | Acting Postmaster | 07 Sep 1956 |
| Luther Glenn Pool | Acting Postmaster | 03 Mar 1961 |
| Luther Glenn Pool | Postmaster | 16 Dec 1963 |
| R. Lloyd Simmons | Officer-In-Charge | 31 Oct 1973 |
| James A. Murphy | Postmaster | 13 Apr 1974 |
| James Duncan | Officer-In-Charge | 31 Oct 1980 |
| Anthony J. Milazzo | Postmaster | 04 Apr 1981 |
| R. L. Simmons | Officer-In-Charge | 09 May 1986 |
| John L. Billimek | Postmaster | 21 Jun 1986 |
| Mary Cavanaugh | Officer-In-Charge | 03 Mar 1995 |
| Ruben Gonzales | Officer-In-Charge | 13 May 1995 |
| Jimmy L. Weatherford | Officer-In-Charge | 08 Feb 1996 |
| Theodore Faulkner | Officer-In-Charge | 19 Feb 1996 |
| Jimmy L. Weatherford | Officer-In-Charge | 19 Jul 1996 |
| William E. McGrath | Postmaster | 14 Feb 1998 |
| Daniel M. Reyes III | Officer-In-Charge | 02 May 2005 |
| Maged S. Aziz | Postmaster | 20 Aug 2005 |
| Louis L. Strother | Officer-In-Charge | 18 Jan 2007 |
| Debbie Hendrix | Officer-In-Charge | 28 Mar 2007 |
| Jack D. Weatherford | Postmaster | 26 May 20 |
Sources:
Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832 - Sept. 30, 1971;
National Archives microfilm M841, NNEB-20 (reels 1 - 3)
Pickett Papers, Confederate States of America, Volumes 98 - 99;
Library of Congress microfilm, reel 52
United States Postal Service website (from 22 Aug 1878)