Excerpted from Boulder: Its Friends and Neighbors, written by Boulder’s only female mayor, Olive Hagadone, and originally published serially in The Monitor in 1985-86.
The earliest post offices were usually where it was most convenient for the stages to drop off the mail – and that could have been a ranch, a stage stop or business place.
The first post office, designated as Boulder Valley, was established at the farm of William Barkley at the north end of the Upper Boulder Valley, on January 23, 1866. But with the establishment of old Boulder City, it was more convenient to drop off the mail at John Rohrbacker’ s store and hotel.
