Post Offices

The following list is courtesy of Postal History by Jim Forte. This list is more extensive than the one on the USPS website. You are welcome to submit further information; for example, the GPS coordinates or description of the location of any particular post office. Please remember to include any relevant source citations. Thank you!

You might also want to check these sites:

  • North Carolina State Archives Postal History Project
  • Postal History website

    Also, there is a book on Guilford’s postal history, The First Hundred Years of Historic Guilford, 1771 – 1871, by A. Earl Weatherly, published in 1972, by Greensboro Printing Company, Greensboro, NC. You may be able to find it through Abebooks or Ebay.


    Allemance (1800 – 1905)
    Battle Ground (1858 – 1923)
    Bloomimton (1858 – 1865)
    Brick Church (1854 – 1905)
    Browns Summit (1871 – today)
    Busick (1876 – 1888)
    Calhoun (1836 – 1839)
    Cascade (1892 – 1903)
    Centre (1819 – 1903)
    Clapps (1829 – 1854)
    Climax (1891 – today)
    Colfax (1870 – 1875)
    Colfax (1879 – today)
    Company Mills (1873 – 1903)
    Crystal (1880 – 1903)
    Danamora (1892 – 1903)
    Danville (1891 – 1904)
    Deep River (1828 – 1903)
    Dennysville (1888 – 1905)
    Dicks Store (1819 – 1819)
    Dobbin (1853 – 1854)
    Ella (1899 – 1903)
    Eulis (1900 – 1907)
    Fentriss (1841 – 1876)
    Fern (1901 – 1907)
    Fishing Creek (1813 – 1819)
    Freemans Mills (1870 – 1904)
    Friendship (1830 – 1933)
    Gerins Store (1828 – 1835)
    Gibsonville (1855 – today)
    Gilher’s Store (1850 – 1903)
    Glenwood (1909 – 1935)
    Greensboro (1810 – 1853)
    Greensborough (1853 – 1893)
    Greensboro (1893 – today)
    Guilford (1888 – 1962)
    Guilford College (1889 – 1957)
    High Point (1854 – today)
    Hillsdale (1835 – 1902)
    Hinton (1880 – 1903)
    Holt (1887 – 1903)
    Hunts Store (1825 – 1858)
    Jack Grove (1861 – 1866)
    Jamestown (1811 – today)
    Julian (1885 – today)
    Lacrosse (1891 – 1904)
    Lamont (1886 – 1907)
    Lego (1893 – 1906)
    Liberty Store (1877 – 1903)
    Longview (1891 – 1902)
    Mabins Store (1826 – 1829)
    Mars (1828 – 1831)
    Martinsville (1792 – 1834)
    McLeansville (1856 – today)
    Monticello (1846 – 1881)
    Oak Ridge (1828 – 1868)
    Oak Ridge (1871 – today)
    Parsons Mills (1840 – 1852)
    Plain (1879 – 1903)
    Pleasant Garden (1876 – today)
    Pomona (1886 – 1954)
    Pond (1879 – 1887)
    Ramsboro (1827 – 1846)
    Rathbone (1892 – 1903)
    Red Cross (1875 – 1891)
    Reedy Fork (1831 – 1888)
    Revolution (1900 – 1901)
    Ridge (1899 – 1903)
    Rudd (1902 – 1907)
    Salem Junction (1883 – 1886)
    Scalesville (1882- 1902)
    Sedalia (1901 – today)
    Shaw’s Mills (1830 – 1903)
    Shepperd (1831 – 1831)
    Sparrow (1901 – 1902)
    Stewarts Mills (1828 – 1834)
    Stokesdale (1887 – today)
    Summerfield (1812 – today)
    Summers Mills (1853 – 1859)
    Sumner (1882 – 1903)
    Superior (1881 – 1881)
    Synew Garden (1814 – 1889)
    Tabernacle (1880 – 1903)
    Thompsons Store (1831 – 1851)
    Thoms Mill (1879 – 1888)
    Trine Mills (1852 – 1855)
    Vandalia (1884 – 1908)
    Weatherley’s (1821 – 1824)
    Westminster (1843 – 1904)
    Whitsett (1895 – today)
    Young’s Mills (1861 – 1878)