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

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

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 1886

 

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 1887

 

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 2007

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)