Record #:

3042

Author(s):

Sharpe, Bill

Abstract:

The Raft Swamp Post Office, the only free-standing Confederate post office in the South, is 150 years old in October, 1996. The 15-by-18-feet structure stands on the Humphrey-Williams-Smith Plantation in Robeson County.

Source:

Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 64 Issue 5, Oct 1996, p4-5, il

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Historic buildings--Robeson County; Post office buildings--Robeson County; Raft Swamp Post Office (Robeson County)