Post Office

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The site of the Dover Post Office has been the "home of the mail" since 1909, its longest tenure in any one location in this city: in its first 114 years of existence in Dover, the post office moved eight times. The first postmaster, Ezra Green, operated out of a home on Silver in 1796. Then the post office moved to a Tuttle Square location, then to Tufts' drug store at Central Square, to the Cochecho Block, then to Marston's Block, the Dover Bank building, the Walker Block, and to the corner of Washington and Walnut Streets.

Some of the house on the site of the present building were moved to Belknap Street when construction began in 1909. The current structure was expanded and renovated in 1962-63 and the entrance changed from Washington Street to Green Street in 1979.
From the 1985 Heritage Walking Tour booklet