Caldwell County MO Archives History .....THE OLD LOG POST OFFICE AT KINGSTON 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mo/mofiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Karen Walker khw4@yahoo.com September 4, 2008, 12:55 pm

THE OLD LOG POST OFFICE AT KINGSTON
	Narrator:  Stephen S. Rogers, 88, Kingston

     Mr. Rogers was long a local narrator in Kingston on local history.  He 
died in the summer of 1935.  He gives the following about the much discussed 
old log post office at Kingston.
     There seems to be some question as to whether the old P.O. building in 
the county seat of Caldwell county was log or frame.  It stood on the site now 
occupied by the Ferrill cafe (1935).  If it was log, it was later sided with 
weatherboarding, which is the appearance it presented to old timers yet alive.
     To enter the building, one had to go between two buildings for a distance 
of twenty or thirty feet before coming to the P.O. door.  Mrs. Ella Cook had 
the drug store in the front of the east building and later moved the office to 
the front part, of her drug store.  Clara Van Winkle was the assistant in the 
P.O.  Later Dave Young had a grocery store in the building west of the drug 
store.  An old frame building stood where Deal's store is now located, and the 
corner now occupied by the Kingston post office was then a vacant lot.
     At that time, only two brick buildings stood on Main st.  A story and a 
half brick stood where the Anderson grocery store is now located, and a one 
story brick was on the present bank building location.  In the corner brick, 
J.B. Gudgell owned a drug store for some time.  This was in the 70s.
     Interview  1934.


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mo/caldwell/history/other/oldlogpo173gms.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mofiles/

File size: 2.0 Kb