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The Glade Post Office, now the Post Office Museum, is a historical building and museum in Benton County, Arkansas. The building served as post office and housed mercantile store from 1890 until 1945. It was moved to higher ground when a dam was built and a lake formed.^[1]

History

The original Glade Post Office was the earliest post office in east Benton County. It was located along the White River from 1858 to 1866 and was called Jennings Ferry.

The Jennings family, the Bland family and other early settlers came from Larue, Kentucky, thus the area on both the east and west sides of White River was called Larue. This first post office was operated by Abner Jennings, located on the east side of the river and Abner ran a ferry back and forth across the White River during this early time.

The Post Office had a few names and locations on first one side and then the other side of the river. It was closed during the American Civil War. While located at the Jennings Ferry site, William McGinnis replaced Mary Bland as the postmaster in 1868 for 7 months. Then located on the east side of the river, it was known as the Larue Post Office but the same site was later named Glade.

The community had some periods when the post office was not open. It was discontinued in February 1869 and reestablished March 8, 1870. Again it was discontinued November 22, 1875 and reestablished as Larue in 1886 on the Glade side. HB McGinnis was the postmaster at that time and it was located less than a mile east of Coal Gap School.

Simon (Dick) McGinnis became postmaster at Larue on the Glade side of the river on May 26, 1890.^[2] He petitioned and applied for the post office under the name of WHITE RIVER on February 23, 1903, but the Postmaster General would accept only one name for the post office, and therefore, the name of GLADE was accepted in 1903. Records are unclear when Glade and Larue became separate communities during those early years, but it has been recorded that the Glade Post Office was named because of the geographical features of that area. Dick McGinnis was postmaster until 1933.^[3]

Closure and relocation

The Glade Post Office closed for the last time in 1945. Raymond Nichols was the last postmaster. At one point it had burned and been rebuilt. It was moved from the White River area because of the construction of Beaver Dam and the resulting flooding that formed a lake. It was relocated to Pea Ridge, Arkansas. Liss Williams moved it when he had to leave his farm because of rising water as the dam filled. A son, Stanley Williams, used it as a storage building.

In July of 2014 it was relocated a few yards east of Coal Gap School, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Glade Community Historical Society Inc., formed in 2011, was instrumental in its return and its restoration.

Renovation and restoration

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2016/jul/28/glade-post-office-coal-gap-school-resto/|title=Glade post office, Coal Gap school restored in community|date=28 July 2016|publisher=}}
2. ^Ancestry.com. U.S., Appointments of U.S. Postmasters, 1832-1971 [database online]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors.
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://ahc-counties.aristotle.net/history/post-offices/county.aspx?county=Benton&name=Glade|title=Arkansas History Commission|website=ahc-counties.aristotle.net}}
4. ^The Times (Northwest Benton County) October 15, 2014
5. ^Handling The Mail in Benton County Arkansas 1836-1976, By George H. Phillips.