In the mid- to late-19th Century, German missionaries and traders began settling Togo. By 1884, competition among traders in the area had led to conflicts with the natives, so German emissaries, acting at Bismark’s request, settled treaties with several native tribes, establishing a German protectorate over the coastal areas of Togo. The protectorate would expand slightly through an 1885 treaty with the neighboring French which gave Germany control over Klein-Popo.

In the more remote areas of Togo, government offices, businesses, and missions were instructed to use their own messengers to send mail to the nearest post office.  Government offices in these areas were further instructed to use their station seal handstamps as supplemental markings to indicate the place of origin.  These seals were not authorized for use to cancel stamps, but mail bearing these marks as cancels rather than supplemental markings can be found.

Station Misahöhe was in south central Togo.