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Post Office & Merryweather Dry Goods
Nauvoo's post office handled an impressive volume of mail as steamships and mail carriers picked up and dropped off the mail at least three times a week by 1845.
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Frederick Merryweather moved his dry goods store in with the postoffice. He adverised “cheap articles,” which in the 1840s meant “within the reach of the average person’s pocketbook.”
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