For many years the early settlers of Simsbury and the Salmon Brook Parish had to depend on a visit to Hartford by friends or relatives for their mail.

The United States Postal Service traces its roots to 1775 during the Second Continental Congress, where Benjamin Franklin was appointed the first postmaster general . The cabinet-level Post Office Department was created in 1792 from Franklin's operation and is one of the few government agencies  explicitly authorized by the United States Constitution .

It was not until 1798 that the first post office was established in Simsbury, in a section known then as Suffrage. Suffrage was located in what we  now know as the Canton Village section of Route 44. In 1802, this post office was moved to Weatogue and most historians believe it was set up in a section of Pettibone's Tavern . More than likely, the residents of Salmon Brook got their mail there.

In April of 1805, Hezekiah Goodrich was appointed the first postmaster of Granby. His house, located just north of the First Congregational Church at 235 North Granby Road, became the location that mail was handled. No record has ever been found as to how mail got to Granby at that time, but in 1806, Enos Boide of Blandford, Massachusetts, had a contract to carry mail from Hartford to Stockbridge Massachusetts, by way of Simsbury, Granby and Granville on his stagecoach.

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