Westville, Florida Old Post Office

My parents are from a small town of Westville, Florida. So of course, I have been there, many, many times. The population in 2010 was 289.

When you turn into the main road that leads to Westville, you drive by the original Post Office.  It was built in 1883.  I love this old building and if I was rich, I would totally have it restored.  It makes me sad to see it rotting away.  I can't believe it isn't registered as a "Historic Place" but somehow it is not.

According to "A Chronology of Florida Post Offices" by Alford G. Bradbury & E. Story Hallock, the Westville Post Office in  Holmes County, Florida was established April 20, 1883.

I'm not sure when but a new cinder block Post Office was built across the street from it (I will need to get a photo of that on my next trip).  I suspect it was built around the 1950s.  This building is still in use today, but not as a Post Office - I know it has been everything from a general store, to a resturant and a beauty salon.  I can't recall what it is at the moment, but on my next trip, I will take a photo and I will know.


Then sometime later a newer, bigger Post Office was built on the other side of the RR Tracks.  I don't k now exactly when it was built but I remember when it was built so it was in my lifetime.  I think it was sometime in the late 1970s or early 1980s.  This is the current (brick) post office.