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Yale Post Office, Bethune Colorado
Settlement Family Registry  -- Bethune, Colorado

 
In the photo are Sherman H. Yale, his wife Sarah and family (most likely their grand children). 
 
Sherman Henry Yale, early -day settler, homesteaded on the place then known as Yale, Colorado, now known as the Sam Schaal Sr. farm, northwest of Burlington, Colorado.  Mr. Yale was mail carrier and the post office, known as the Yale post office, was established at the Yale home in the year of 1886.  Mr. Yale also ran a store together with his post office and was later county assessor and county commissioner.  Photo from the collection of Marvin C. Schaal.  [ scan of news clipping and photo ]

History of the Yale Post Office
In the fall of 1886, Sherman H. YALE, his wife Sarah BEVIER Yale and two children Lillian Mae and William Henry came to in Kit Carson County, Colorado and settled in the area that later became the heart of the Settlement.  Mr. Yale came out earlier that year to file on a homestead and build a small sod house on the North East corner of Section 12  Township 7S  Range 45W -- today this is known as the Samuel Schaal Place at 28951 County Rd. 43  (Corner of Road GG and 43 -- 11 miles north and 3 miles east of Bethune.)

For the first three years, Mr. Yale was contracted to carry mail from Jacqua, Kansas to Friend, Colorado.  In 1889 a post office was established in their home and the Yales carry the mail on a route from Burlington to the Goff Post Office, then to Landman Post Office, and then to their home post office, a distance of fifty-two miles.  Their home post office became known as, Yale, Colorado. Mr. Yale also ran a store together with his post office and was later county assessor and county commissioner.  The post office was in official operation until 1905.  In 1914, Sam SCHAAL, Sr. bought the place.
 

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Rand McNally Railroad Atlas of the United States published in 1895.
(This map shows Yale west of the actual location of the Yale Post office.)

Notes:

  • Sam Schaal bought the place in 1914  (see obit of Louise Holmes)

  • In 1909 they had their first mail route out of Bethune. -- Kit Carson County and It's Cattlemen, p. 55

  • This rural post office located about 12 miles northeast of Bethune, operated from 1891-1905. Source
    Other sources state that the post office was established in 1889.

  • The Yale family came to Colorado in 1886.  Sarah was postmaster at the Yale post office until 1906 at their home northwest of town. -- obituary of William H. Yale-3906
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