USPS Post Office (Smallest in USA)

USA / Florida / Plantation Island /
 post office, interesting place
This building is slightly larger than a phonebooth. As the historical roadside marker reads:

"It was formerly an irrgation pump shed belonging to the J.T.Gaunt Company tomato farm. It was hurredly pressed into service by postmaster Sidney Brown after a disastrous night fire in 1953 burned down Ochopee's general store and post office. The present structure has been in continuous use since -- as both a post office and a ticket station for Trailways bus lines -- and still services residents in a three-county area, including deliveries to Seminole and Miccosukee Indians living in the region. Daily requests from tourists and stamp collectors the world over for the famed Ochopee post mark. The property was acquired by the Wooten family in 1992."
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ochopee_post_office
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Coordinates:   25°54'4"N   81°17'50"W

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