Post Office in Goodyears Bar was established in October of 1851, Mr. O.D. Woodruff being the first postmaster in this new mining camp almost a year before Sierra County was established. The next PostMaster was Mr. Robinson and the Meyers brothers. Joseph Brown held the office in the 1860's. Picture of present Goodyears Bar Post Office above Goodyears Bar on an old spur road. Julius Mineheart and O.F. Ackerly held the office from 1872 to 1882. A table of the Goodyears Bar Postmasters' from the year 1912 on follows:

Post Masters who worked at Goodyears Bar, CA 95944
Mrs Kate Morgan	5 years	1912 to 1917
Mrs George King	13 years	1917 to 1930
Mrs Verna Sutherland	16 years	1930 to 1946
Mrs Betrice Loffmark	2 years	1946 to 1948
Mrs Hilda Carrol	11 years	1948 to 1959
Mrs Audrey Trice	2 years	1959 to 1961
Mrs Ruth Drury *	4 years	1961 to 1965
Mrs Betty Bishop	3 years	1965 to 1968
Mrs Ken Fellerman	2 years	1968 to 1970
Mr Harry Kawa	3 years	1970 to 1973
Mrs Illa Baker	15 years	1973 to 1988
Mrs Eileen Heiney	6 years	1989 to 1995
Mrs Patra Hallman	13+ years	1995 to present

For many years the Goodyears Bar Post Office was in the Bachels Hotel building. However, In the 1950's, the post office was moved to the little building where it is now located on the Post Office Spur Road. The beautiful gold-laden creek that comes down from Mountainhouse through the Brush Creek Mine and meets Rock Creek at Goodyears Bar got its' name from Mr. Woodruff, the first postmaster. Mr. Woodruff also had a store in Goodyears Bar that was a pyramid shaped building made of logs.

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