This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hardin Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zV.2ADI/1798 Message Board Post: My aunt Mabel Hardin was a Postmistriss in Alameda,Ca Her father John T.Hardin, a home builder-contractor built a separate office for Mabel to use as a Post Office. The location was: 1827 Encinal Avenue,Alameda,Ca., at street level. I need to find out when this Post Office was in existance?? John, being a builder and Notary Public had need to go often to the downtown main Post Office. (Where was that located?). He was able to have his adult daughter apply for the position and able to get the station at his address on Encinal Avenue.