Name: Mandel

 

County: Albany

 

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Feature Type: Locale, Post Office

 

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Post office named for Phil Mandel, the earliest settler in Laramie Valley. Had the stage station at the crossing of the Little Laramie River. The Mandel Ranch is named for him.

Source: WPA

 

Named for Phil Mandel, the earliest settler in Laramie Valley.

Source: Annals 14(3)

 

The following was reprinted in the January 27, 1912 issue of the Laramie Republican from the Lusk Standard:

The prominent Jews of Chicago and New York who are financing the proposed Jewish settlement in Wyoming, are completing the arrangements so the committee having in charge the matter of a location can come west and look over the proposed locations. Mrs. Mandel, the wife of one of Chicago's famous merchants, has offered the Jewish Farm Colonization society $25,000 if they will name the town to be established in Wyoming "Mandel." It is now believed the leading men who are managing the project will accept Mrs. Mandel's offer and the town, about which the colony will be established, will be given the name of the great Chicago merchant.

 

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Mandel Post Office was established on August 27, 1898 with Philip H. Bath as its first postmaster. It was discontinued on December 31, 1917 and the mail was then handled by the Morgan Post Office.

Source: Wyoming Post Offices

 

Country postoffice in Albany County, 15 miles northwest from Laramie, the nearest railroad point. Stockraising the principal industry. 

Source: Wyoming State Business Directory, 1910-11 

 

A discontinued postoffice, 16 miles northwest of Laramie, the county seat and banking point, and 8 miles northwest of Millbrook on the Colorado, Wyoming and Eastern Railway, the shipping point.

Source: Laramie City and Albany County Directory

 

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