The King and Queen County Historical Society will hold its quarterly meeting at 3 p.m. Sunday in the courtroom of the county’s Administration Building.
Andrew Graff, a land surveyor and historian, will be the guest speaker. His subject will be “Early Postal Service in King and Queen County.” Graff’s surveying firm is Old Albemarle Surveying, LLC, located in Charlottesville. He is a past board member of the Albemarle-Charlottesville Historical Society and a collector of early postal history for several eastern Virginia counties, including King and Queen County.
Early post offices were usually located at crossroads inside general merchandise stores where local people gathered. The post office was frequently named after the proprietor of the store or sometimes by the name of the locality. When the U.S. Postal Service centralized the routing procedures in the 1920s, they required post offices within each state to be uniquely named.
It was at that time that the county lost a few of the trad...