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    1. [TNMONTGO-L] SOMERSET......Post Office Henrietta Community
    2. A while back someone was inquiring about Somerset Post Office..... My sister ran across this information in a booklet on the history of the Henrietta Community, Hwy 12, which stradles the Montgomgery/Cheatham Co . line.: "POST OFFICE FEB TO JUNE 1859 B F KING POSTMASTER AT HENRIETTA. THEN R.T.GUPTON POSTMASTER UNTIL 1860 CLOSED DUE TO CIVIL WAR. NO POST OFFICE UNTIL 1877 WHEN JOHN DUKE WHO HAD STORE AT HENRIETTA BECAME POSTMASTER. THEN JOHN HART BALTROP, JJ GUPTON, J.H. BALTHROP, THOMAS BATTS. POST OFFICE IN THOMASVILLE --JOHN SHAW IN LATE 1800'S, THERE WAS A GROCERY STORE AT CORA POOLES HOUSE. RUN BY JACK ADKINS, IT DOES NOT MENTION A POST OFFICE, BUT SAYS THAT THE STORE WAS CALLED SOMMERSET." Hope this helps! Diann

    01/10/2004 12:09:14