The old Moon Post Office in Mathews is on the road to restoration, thanks to next-door neighbors Jameson and Lauren Gregg, who purchased the building recently from previous owner Peter Maxwell.
The Greggs moved to Moon from Gloucester in 2017 into a circa 1850 farmhouse that was once owned by William Jefferson Callis, the postmaster at the Moon Post Office in the early 1900s. Callis’s daughter Dahlia lived in the house her entire life, said Jameson, and when she passed away, the house was auctioned off, with Maxwell casting the winning bid. He subdivided the property, leaving five acres with the house, but including the post office in the 17 remaining acres. Former Mathews High School teacher Adrienne Quigley bought the house from Maxwell and was the owner at the time of the Greggs’s purchase.

SHERRY HAMILTON / GAZETTE-JOURNALThe counter in the front room of the old Moon Post Office appears to have been original with the building. New owner Jameson Gregg, shown here, hopes to preserve...