{"id":6424,"date":"2012-08-30T01:36:42","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T06:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=6424"},"modified":"2023-09-12T22:56:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T02:56:38","slug":"post-office-sc-261-paxville-south-carolina-1990s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=6424","title":{"rendered":"Post Office, SC-261 Paxville South Carolina: 1990s"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As far as I have ever been able to tell, Paxville<\/i> is simply a cluster of buildings at the intersection of SC-261 and US-15 in between Pinewood<\/i> and Manning<\/i> on the way to the beach.<\/p>\n

Driving to the beach growing up, we used to marvel at the little Paxville Post Office, which was the leftmost in the small strip pictured here. The Pawleys Island<\/i> Post Office (in those days) was certainly tiny, but the Paxville Post Office managed to both out-tiny and out-decrepit it, and I never saw anything anywhere else to compete either. Although we never stopped to get a closer look back in the day, my impression always was that it was an official US Post Office, and not a contract Post Office.<\/p>\n

Finally one trip, I believe it was in the 1990s, I noticed that the place was no longer open. For a time the pictured convenience store serving the intersection had a sign up advertising a contract Post Office which I guess functioned as a replacement, but that no longer seems to be the case, and the USPS web site seems to show the nearest facility is now in Pinewood.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 12 September 2023<\/b> -- The buildings have been razed:<\/p>\n

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Going by Streetview<\/a>, this would have happened between August 2019 and September 2021.<\/p>\n

Also adding map icon.<\/p>\n

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