Claude Post Office
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				CLAUDE Post Office
 
	 The people in the Dry Creek area in the western part of the county 
received their mail from different postoffices in Greenwood County until 
1884 when Stephen Cannon established a postoffice in his home on 06 June 
1884. However, the Claude postoffice here did not last very long as it was 
discontinued 23 July 1884, and the papers went to Toronto. The following 
year Cannon was a postmaster at Toronto.
 
	 The Claude postoffice, however, was re-established on 22 Sept. 1884,
by Samuel C. Gustin in his home, where it was kept almost two years.
 
	 On 01 June 1886, Adolphus Singleton became the postmaster of Claude 
and kept it in his home along Dry Creek until it was discontinued and papers 
taken to Quincy in Greenwood County, effective 31 October 1891.