Wappan Post Office, at Howes Creek between 10.01.1884 to 01.02.1891. Left to right: Neil Ross, Unknown, Unknown, Adelaide, John, Lizzie, Unknown, Annie, Hugh, Barbara S., Unknown, Unknown, Unknown. When John Ross bought the land on the east side of the Delatite, south of Howes Creek, he built up a significant township, which some called ‘Rosstown’, but he preferred to call his home ‘Rossdale’ and that became the name of the surrounding area. The photograph of the first stage of ‘Rossdale’ to be built, shows that the building includes a room designated at the ‘Wappan Post Office’. This became the Howes Creek Post Office on 1st February 1891 as obviously, Howes Creek was some 10 miles from the ‘Wappan’ homestead, near where the original Wappan Post Office probably had been since 10th January 1994, and the name was not longer appropriate.