Established September
8, 1855. First white settler in Wise County, Benjamin B. Haney,
was the first postmaster. Second was Martha E. Marshall, appointed
December 5, 1856; third, Nathan Huff, served from March 16, 1860,
until office was discontinued on December 5, 1866. David C. Haynes
and William Quagle, contractors, brought mail every Saturday by
stagecoach from Birdville (25 miles southeast), arriving Odessa
12:00 noon. Stayed at George Wilmouth Inn two hours, arriving in
Birdville 8:00 p.m. Second post office, Newark, opened 1893, after
another Odessa was founded in Ector County.
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