- City:
- Winnsboro, SC
- Site Type:
- Civic Facilities, Federal Facilities, Post Offices
- New Deal Agencies:
- Federal & Military Operations, Treasury Department
- Started:
- 1936
- Completed:
- 1937
Description
South Carolina’s State Stone, Blue Granite (often called Winnsboro Blue Granite), was quarried from the Kincaid-Anderson Quarry and exported all over the east coast to build and decorate scores of buildings. The quarry was the site of Fairfield County’s biggest industry until it closed in 1946. Yet the stone was not used for this brick post office built in 1936 by the US Treasury. Winnsboro also boasts the longest running clock in the US!
Source notes
https://www.savethepostoffice.com/node/9867Site originally submitted by Claire Stringer on February 6, 2014.
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Fairfield County Administration is in the process of hiring a photographer to get good images of our Auriel Bessemer post office mural. Please contact me for further information:
Pelham Lyles
Director
Fairfield County Museum
Winnsboro, SC