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ut the stiH'c uU in one ston• .
And Lhey cun t·utch up em th~
latest community n(!ws while
they arc at H..
Hurming ~he pnsl ofW.·c is u
five-huur-u-tluy jolJ for Mr:-~.
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on po:-;ta! fll{:C~pl s. :she ex-
ta llroad
the l)ostQn deJ)ot.. Tt'ains
origlnat(!d In Poston and it
was a switching poin1 for
trains running from J+~lorence
1n. U1e aHcrnoon, she comes
back about 2: :iot handH out U1e
(!Vening mn U, and duUfuUy
)owers the nag before ]eavlng
at 5.
Down th~ strcQt from the P.
0. and CJ(:r~ss the J'ailroau
tJ'rttks, the Seuboanl Coast
J.. inc d(!pot which was once a
"pretty busy place', has gone
Oil ~W Jc. 1t was ci{)St.!d Ja t.e in
1967 aftel' the merger of the
Allantic CGast Line an J
Smlboal'd Ail'!inc railroads.
'fhough the Morsq telcgrapil
sand~r lm~l rQet.! ivE-lr has long
e!icked silent at Poston, a sig11
ove1· one door at the depot
says. They can pick tip
stmnps. buy a molll'Y onlcr
office. And the way Mrs. Mary
· : Dell PeL'ry. poslmisLress for·
Uw past 14 ye<rrs. figurm:: it.
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corner of th~ slore~ just ·CJS. it
has for as Iong as mosl peopie
In Poston cao rclllemh~l'.
fleople like the post office
rlght where it js,. Mr3. Pcrl'y
By DEW JAMES
MltrnJng New!! Sunday FAIUot·
POStl'ON' - Whenever lhc
· · top brass in Lhe Pu~l Offlc~
: . Department in • W&l;hlnglon
:;taL'l talking aboul clusing
.. . smaH post offices as <Ill
. , economy. m(!a~urc, it sets t>ff a
~ <!Uiver in Poston.
• . Po!;ton. Zip <AKIC 295fl8 a(:' <:ordlng to a hand·writt~n
. . notice posle;:d by the single
· service window, is J~'lnrencc
County's only fourth class post
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Poston says the railroad co~·
and north to Marion on the
p<my wanted to buHd Us shops
al Poston, but his grandfather,
Andrew Poston for wtwm Lhc
community is named, and the
railroad eumpany co u I d n 't
Seaooa•·d system.
agree on a price for a tt·act of
The depot was open around
the clock, Mrs. Hearn r.ecaH~.
ul workt~ an eight hour shift,
land on which the shops were
and conne<!Ung wW1 trains
tunning sough to Charleston
my husband worked another
eight hour shift and our s~m
workL~ the third slliiL We
kept the rumdng oi the depot
in the famjl}·,, she says.
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MRS. M·ARY DELL PERRY RUNS UP FLAG AT POSTON P. 0 .
She Has Been Po~tmis tress for Past 14 Ye<~rs.
(Staff Photo)
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four general stores operating
at once. There was a villag:;
doctor, a drug store and a
liverv- stable . The LL·ain station
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POST,ON DEPOT, uo~CE A BUSY PLACE/' ~AS USED UNTIL LATE IN 1967
Building at left Was Once o Cafe and Contained Jrgin Dispatcher's Offices
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So the shop;:; were buill in..
st~ad at Andrews. '• If the
might have
become a good si?.ed town;
Poston said ..
Bdorc Ihe railro~•d era,
Po~ton Wf\!.i on the mCJin 1·oad
and the telegraph $ervlcc was behveen :Georgetown a n d
pro~·l11ims :
:·,w~slcrn Union
Telegraph (tnd Cabh~ Office.'· continued until a year or ~o Marion and a ferry \\·as
ago, she says, though the old · operated acros~ t~ Pee Dee
Mr~. Nell Hearn who worked
at the depot fur 48 years Morse sender was not used River at Elfi!;<m's Landing n
beroL'e retiring five years ag(> anymore lor tapping our few. mii<!S e.ast of Poston.
.. Dou~la·s Furc-hes. ~v h () s ~
l'cmcmbers that during World me:;sages.
l'ost<m, like many Pee Dee· grandlathcr operated the fer·
War fi and for some years
lmfore things buz~ed around tnwns got its start as a . ry, recalls thal older ferries
. were paddle4 across. hut Jale1·
suoncr . ot' Inter when the JJ,)ains.
l·~Heh rnrwuiug ilb~}Ul 9. she
go\'el'nt~lcnl stm·Ls t a I k i n :~
cconotmcs. lhe Po:; ton P. 0. <•omos duwn and runs up lhc
flag on a poJc on I he norlh side
will hu\'e to go.
'fhc Poston P. 0 . ~erve3 of lhP. gcuer·al store land posl
UbJ>Ut 60 rnmiJics \o\'ho COOl(! h• ufftc('}. SIH! stieks around unm
James Haselden's g ~! ncr a I ahout IL ::IO handing oul the
sloL'C daily Lo rolleel 1heir morning mail brought in from
mail. '!'he P. 0. ocl'upies on\! .Jolmson\'il)(!.
SUNDAY1 AUGUST 25, 1961
SECTtON D, PAGE 1
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a hotel . he said.
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railroad nnd the B r o w n Englimri L:lmlwr Co.
on the
Pee Dee Ri\•er - accounted
for Poston's commercial bus~
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The bustle has gone from
Poston. but H remains n
picturesque community where
old .~u~Idings are reminders of
a lively past.
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Poston Post Office on Borrowed Time - 1968
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8-25-1968
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Florence Morning News