March 14, 1897: “The new post office at Johannesburg will be opened tomorrow (March 12), at the hotel Saturday Mr. Curtis’s commission as postmaster arrived a few days ago, and the mail will be the same service as Randsburg, coming here first and continuing on to Johannesburg and will be daily.” – Los Angeles Daily Times
March 18, 1897: “The first through mail was delivered in Johannesburg this evening, and a very complete little post office with fixtures was all ready for it, located at the corner of Panamint avenue and Rand street.” — Los Angeles Daily Times
October 17, 1897: “Postmaster (Randsburg) Austin Young has applied to Samuel Flint, superintendent of the railway mall service, to have the mall sent direct from trains No. 18, 19 and 20 of the Southern Pacific on train No. 34 of the Atlantic and Pacific, via Mojave to Randsburg (via Kramer), which arrangement when completed will bring more than three-quarters of Randsburg’s mail to Its destination six hours earlier than by the route it now travels.” – The Herald
January 31, 1898: “Samuel Flint of San Francisco, an Inspector In the railway mail service, has been here and In Randsburg the past few days. As a result of his efforts, Los Angeles mail now arrives here the same day it is mailed, for which Randsburgers and Johunnesburgers tender thanks, as they are now enable to keep in dally touch with all the outside world.”– The Herald
April 9, 1898: “Huston & Arnold have secured the contract for carrying the mails between this place and Randsburg.” –The Herald
April 17, 1898: “JOHANNESBURG, April 15—This post office has been made a money order office, a fact which the people fully appreciate. It should have been n money order office six months ago. If the postmaster in charge at that time had not run it on the principle of “the people be d……..” – The Herald
Johannesburg Postmasters
Goerge H. Curtis February 10, 1897
Samuel H. Fairchild February 19, 1903
Charlie J. Teagle January 10, 1906
Lizzie B. Teagle September 25, 1920
Fred B. Church December 24, 1937
Louise Aiken October 23, 1942
Marie F. MacQuidday February, 25, 1947
Martha E. Kelly March 15, 1954
Madeline B. Hord September 6, 1957
Rena M. Baker
Betty Laskey 1960
Ruth Simpson
Helen Ford
Maggie Clark January 13, 1979
Marion Barker May 16, 1992
Becky Wood March 1996
