By NANCY MARLOWE
Correspondent
PAMPLICO — The original Pamplico Post Office unit has traveled for quite a few miles over the years since it was first used in the early 1900’s. The South Carolina Secretary of State issued a charter to incorporate Pamplico as a town on May 10, 1910 with the post office being located in People’s Drug Store.
This also served as Dr. W.H. Poston’s office. John Ely McGough was appointed the first postmaster in Pamplico on July 13, 1914.
After McGough resigned on March 8, 1915, A.A. Myers became postmaster. On January 1, 1916, his wife, Lottie Grey Myers, was appointed as postmistress after her husband had served for six months.
Because these were presidential appointments, every time the administration changed, the postmaster had to be renewed. Mrs. Myers bought the post office unit, now located in the new library, in April of 1916. Mrs. Myers later bought a lot on what is now Main Street (Fourth Avenue then), on May 10, 1920.
A small two-room building from Dargan Lumber Company was placed on this property now owned by Service Motor Company This building is where the post office was moved and made into the service window. This unit had metal combination boxes down both sides. Vendetta Gregg Finklea served as postmaster when Mrs. Myers retired on June 30, 1946. When Raymond W. Coleman was postmaster in September of 1947, the building on Fourth Avenue was torn down and the post office was moved to the Masonic Building. Years later, Louis Albert Myers, grandson of the first postmistress, Lottie Grey Myers, sold the post office unit.
Some time later, the original Pamplico Post Office Unit was found in Vienna, Georgia, in an antique store owned by Mrs. Bobbie Ann Mangham. Mrs. Mangham felt that the post office should be returned to the Pamplico community. She called a childhood friend, Rentz Woodruff, and he came and brought the post office back home to Pamplico.
The Pamplico United Methodist Church men’s group bought it and kept it at the church until it could stand in its place of honor in the Dozier M. Munn Pamplico Public Library.
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