Locust Hill Post Office Closed: 1911

 Locust Hill Post Office Closed: 1911

The News of Caswell: Our Yanceyville Scribe Has Store of New Items

"The office at Locust Hill, which has been maintained as a postoffice for many years, has been discontinued by the Department, and the patrons in the future will be supplied by the R.F.D. from Yanceyville."

The Reidsville Review (Reidsville, North Carolina), 7 April 1911, Friday, Page 1.

_____

The Locust Hill US Post Office began as Brown's Store in 1804, apparently operating in the store of Jethro Brown (1766-1828) [built by his father John Edmunds Brown (1733-1798)]. The first postmaster was John H. Brown, possibly a son of John Edmunds Brown. Jethro Brown became postmaster in 1818. While the name changed in 1846, query whether the location did. The first postmaster under the Locust Hill name was Stephen Neal. The last postmaster was William W. Hatchett (1859-1939).

_____

Brown's Store

Locust Hill Post Office Cancellation August 7, 1885