Nell Butner Brimberry of Albany, Georgia

Albany, Georgia

Albany is a city in and the county seat of Dougherty County, Georgia, United States, in the southwestern part of the state. It is the principal city of the Albany, Georgia metropolitan area and the southwest part of the state. The population was 77,434 at the 2010 U.S. Census, making it the...

, became the first Postmistress

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 of a major United States

United States

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 Post Office

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 in 1910.

In 1911 she inaugurated the first airmail

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 flight in the U.S. and struck the first airmail stamp

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. This preceded the first transcontinental airmail flight by nine years.

She played a significant role in the agricultural

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 history of the South

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 when she secured for pecan

Pecan

The pecan , Carya illinoinensis, is a species of hickory, native to south-central North America, in Mexico from Coahuila south to Jalisco and Veracruz, in the United States from southern Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, and Indiana east to western Kentucky, southwestern Ohio, North Carolina, South...

growers the privilege of sealing their product in packages to be distributed by mail.