A tiny crossroads town in Ozark County, Missouri, Almartha somehow strikes my fancy. I passed through it in the early 1990s. From what I can remember it consisted then of a gas station, an abandoned building that had been the post office (evident by the faded Mr. Zip stickers on the windows) and a handful of houses. The post office had been discontinued on May 16, 1969 and had a ZIP code of 65602 before it was deleted. According to Rand McNally data, it only had 25 people in 1946 and likely never had many more after that. Presumably, it started as just a post office in 1855 and off an on until the 1969 closing date.
I don't know why but I just liked the name Almartha. I'm not sure how it got that name. A map of its location is on MapQuest.
About Me
- SAYOHAT
- I'm genuine, open-minded, real. Life is like opening a bunch of presents, you never know what you're going to get. Sometimes it's not what you want, sometimes it's excatly what you want, most of the time it's what you really need even if you don't appreciate it at the time. My passion is travel. It's in my blood and is reflected in everything I do. I'm a xenophile at heart. Something about being from another country, or just "elsewhere" is inherently interesting to me. I'm still learning and growing and hope to be as eager to do it when I'm 86 as I am now.
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