First Post Office in Roy
Located at 5900 S. 2700 W. (Field Home) The Field home had two rooms: a kitchen and bedroom. The post office was in a corner of the kitchen.
Orson Field was appointed first postmaster on 25 May 1894. Name choices for the Federal Post Office were:
- Central City
- Lake View
- Sand Ridge
- Roy.
The Federal Post Office Department preferred the shortness of the name “Roy”. Roy was the son of Rev. David Peebles who had died at the age of two.
The first Roy Post Office Building outside a home was at 5700 S. 1900 W.
The first Post Office in Roy, Weber County, Utah began at this site in the corner of the kitchen of the original two room home of the first postmaster Orson Field and his wife Margaret Jones Field. Mr. Field received appointment under President Grover Cleveland March 25, 1894 while Utah was a Territory.
At this monument’s dedication (1958), Mrs. Field is still living at the age of ninety four and the original post office is presently a portion of her home.
Located at 5987 South 2700 West in Roy, Utah