Lowell Postal Service

Lowell’s postal service grew from the earliest postal area at Cross Hollows. Records show that on March 9, 1881, the Bloomington Post Office was changed to Lowell with Paul F. Lewis as postmaster. A post office building stood on North Jackson Street in 1900, and another next door to the Green & Henry Store probably existed before 1900. Personal knowledge places a post office north of the Lowell Bank in 1929, downstairs in the IOOF building in 1949, and later south of that building, where the Electric Company is in 2009. It next moved to the north end of the present Fire Department, then, as Lowell’s rapid growth required more space, two doors west of the railroad crossing on Monroe Street, and after another growth spurt, farther south on Lincoln Street, where it was in 2009. Early postmasters included Edwin J. Bishop in 1907, Jesse Mabry in 1910, Hugh McClure in 1913, Nina B. Cowan in 1919, again as Nina B. Neil, Perry V. Johnson in 1920, James H. Smith in 1928, Myrtle Nail in 1934, Tolbert H. Graham in 1936, Arthur Mayes in 1942, Canda Smith in 1943, Marjorie Collier in 1948, and Elza R. Tucker on July 1, 1949. W. H. Cowan was the rural carrier in the 1920s, Sam Cupps was Route No. 1 carrier in the 1930s, and Elza Tucker served many years as a rural carrier before retiring after 31 years of service. Lowell now has 6 routes.

Lowell, Arkansas · United States