The old post office/general store is most likely no longer. It wasn't looking so structurally sound some 31 years ago when the photo was taken.
Sherry was working for the Southern Standard, the local newspaper, at the time. She was taking photos, developing and printing in the lab on High Street. I was about to enter my freshman year at MTSU, when I asked her to take a photo of the old run down building. We drove down the steep hill on the dirt road that then ran parallel to Charles Creek. It was the same path that the school bus took right after picking us in the mornings. I remember that I purposely sat on the left side of the bus so I could gaze at the old boards.
When the green shingle house was built in spring of 1960, none of the mail coming to our home had a Zip Code affixed along with the Route 1, Daylight address. The Postal Zip Codes were established for the entire country on July 1, 1963 and sometime before that date the move was made to the main Post Office on the Court House Square in McMinnville. Along with Centertown, Ivring College, Dibrell and other small operations - the postmasters then became letter carriers. Two generations of the Womack family delivered the mail for as long as our family lived on "Route 8".
And yes, that is a tree growing through the roof.
