Photo: One Of The Oldest Post Offices In The Country
According to the description accompanying this Flickr photo:”The Mooresville Post Office has been operating from the same building since 1840, the oldest continually operating post office building in the state of Alabama and one of the oldest in the country.”
February 26th, 2008 at 7:42 am
In my part of the United States,
Minnesota, the volunteer fire department would have had the “historical” structure designated a fire hazard so that they could burn it down for a fire drill.
Over in South Dakota the state simply sends out a steam shovel and front end loader to knock down any structures the neighbors don’t like.
That is how we preserve our heritage here in the Midwest. If it is in the way of the developer’s new strip mall it is gone. We even re contour the very ground, we can level small hills flat in a day, I’ve even seen small forests of some forty acres cut down and ground into steaming wood chips within two days(mature mixed hardwood some 18″ to 36″ diameter trees) to clear the ground for parking lots of speculation built warehouse industrial buildings.
Support your local contractor, replace history with particle board and vinyl siding.