On October 31, 1911, the post office closed. It was located five miles southeast of the business district of Seattle within the future city limits in the Brighton neighborhood.
Seattle Beginnings: Brighton Post Office opens on April 11, 1901.
- By Greg Lange
- Posted 11/01/1998
- HistoryLink.org Essay 570
Sources: Guy Reed Ramsey, "Postmarked Washington, 1850-1960," Microfilm (Olympia: Washington State Library, February, 1966), 662-663.
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