Rhode Island Tercentenary Issue
First Day Cover 300th Anniversary of the Settlement of Rhode Island
Issued on May 4, 1936 in Providence, RI - Scott #777
Unofficial Town Cancel -
East Side Station -
Providence, RI 1st John Kilton Cachet - Planty #777-61m
The East Side
Station of the Providence Post Office ,
(Providence Township, Providence County)
was established
in 1904 and is currently in operation.
There are currently 17 Post Office
branches and stations located in the Providence Urban area;
at the time the tercentenary stamp was issued in 1936
there were only 14 branches and stations. Each
of the branch and station post offices represented by a
tercentenary cancel include a location map as below.
The 14 Branch and
Stations of the Providence Post Office in 1936 were as listed
below: