Friendswood received postal service in 1899, when twenty-two-year-old widow Flora Knode was appointed postmaster and residents picked up mail from her home. In 1904 Quaker Charles E. Hoover and his family moved there from West Branch, Iowa, and in 1906 he was appointed Friendswood postmaster, a position he held until his death in 1938. His daughter Mabel succeeded him and served until 1946. On this site, a small building attached to the Hoover home housed the post office, the phone exchange, the Library Association books, his notary public business, and, in Mabel's era, a sundry shop that sold school supplies, candy, and tobacco. In later years the post office operated at three other local sites where patrons received their mail from a postal box. After streets were given names and houses were numbered, home delivery began on September 7, 1966.