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”’ services in Mosquitia”’ were established as part of the [[Royal Mail Steam Packet Company|Royal West Indian Mail Steam Packet Company]]’s network in January 1842, when Grey Town was incorporated into the Jamaica District. Although this arrangement lasted only until September of that year, mail packets resumed calling at the port by November 1844. The discovery of gold in California in the late 1840s increased Greytown’s importance as a key transit point for overland mail and passengers crossing Central America. The first distinctive Greytown postmark is recorded in February 1856, while a subsidiary agency, without its own postmark, operated at Bluefields between 1857 and 1863. After the British Protectorate over Mosquitia ended in 1861, the British post office at Greytown continued operations, supplied with British postage stamps from 1865. These are occasionally found used alongside Nicaraguan issues, which were valid only for internal correspondence. The British post office at Greytown was finally closed on 1 May 1882, marking the end of Britain’s postal presence in the region. |
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Postal services in Mosquitia were established as part of the Royal West Indian Mail Steam Packet Company’s network in January 1842, when Grey Town was incorporated into the Jamaica District. Although this arrangement lasted only until September of that year, mail packets resumed calling at the port by November 1844. The discovery of gold in California in the late 1840s increased Greytown’s importance as a key transit point for overland mail and passengers crossing Central America. The first distinctive Greytown postmark is recorded in February 1856, while a subsidiary agency, without its own postmark, operated at Bluefields between 1857 and 1863. After the British Protectorate over Mosquitia ended in 1861, the British post office at Greytown continued operations, supplied with British postage stamps from 1865. These are occasionally found used alongside Nicaraguan issues, which were valid only for internal correspondence. The British post office at Greytown was finally closed on 1 May 1882, marking the end of Britain’s postal presence in the region.
