The Robeson County History Museum announces the hosting of a celebration to celebrate the 221st birthday of Robeson County. The cake cutting and opening of the "It Came in the Mail" exhibit will be Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 5pm in the mail exhibit gallery of the museum at 101 S. Elm Street, Lumberton. The exhibit will highlight the rich and diverse history of Robeson County through vintage postcards and letters. The exhibit will also share thehistory of the postoffices of the county gathered from vintage newspapers. The newspapers revealed items like the fact that in 1803 you cold ride on the mail coach from Charleston to Lumberton for $14.50; the 1906 robbery of over $3,000 in cash and jewelry from the mail; conversations about theplacement of the Lumberton postoffices in 1913 and the 1930s. The postcards fall into the following categories Street Scenes; Water and Rails; Agriculture, Industry, and Business; Hotels and Inns; Homes; Education; Military; Religion; Social Life and Popular Diversions; and Robeson Lost – Hoke County. They include postcards from Rev. James Burt MacLeod and his daughter, Suzie McLeod Dedrick, who loaned images from thepostcard collection of Alexander Hamilton MacLeod; John and Betty Edens; Mutt McCoy; Paul Valenti; Carla Baxley; Tom Parker; and the Hubbard Tyner Collection. Letters include those from girls at Floral College; McKay family of Shoeheel (current Maxton); Rev. A.L. Davis talking about life in Robeson County during the 1840s and 1850s. For more information, call 910-827-5504 or visit our website at www.robesoncountyhistory.org. -- ************************************ K. Blake Tyner, MLS, FSA Scot Curator, Robeson County History Museum www.robesoncountyhistory.org Education Chair & Past President Society NC Archivists http://www.ncarchivists.org/ http://blaketyner.com http://carolinastories.com