Between 1901 and 1926, Treadwell residents picked up their mail at this simple one-room Post Office. The wooden building was located at the end of St. Ann’s Avenue (on the north side of the 300 Stamp Mill in the area of the present-day parking lot, directly below the (circa 1910) house on the corner of St. Ann’s and Treadwell Street. The Post Office separated the townsites of Douglas and Treadwell.
ALASKA MONTHLY, 1907
“The usual working force of the Treadwell consists of 1,500 men. There is such a mixture of nationalities that seventeen different languages are spoken in the camp.”
Washington Post, March 21, 1910