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#4908 Hot Rods; FDCUSA; 02, North Carolina, FDOS, UO, MPP #1 Railroad
[F201402]

$5.00

First Day Of Sale - Pinebluff, North Carolina
First Day Of Use - Pinebluff, NC Mailer's Postmark Permit #1

Only 25 Made

Depicting a late 1800's illustration of the Pinebluff Railroad Depot and the layout of the town beside it.

Artwork laser printed on 110lb acid free card stock, front and back.

Text on Back:

Pinebluff, North Carolina - The Formative Years

The Raleigh and Augusta Airline Railroad Company had been operating in the Sandhills for less than ten years when John T. Patrick selected the Pinebluff site for his planned resort. Patrick had come to Moore County first as Commissioner of Immigration for the state, and then took a position with the Raleigh and Augusta and other allied railroads as Industrial Agent.

The first settlers and visitors arriving in Pinebluff by rail saw only a wooden loading platform beside the tracks. It was not long, however, before construction began on a station. In 1889-90, Levi Packard, Sr., newly appointed Passenger and Freight Agent in the settlement, supervised the work on Pinebluff's first depot, a two-story structure about fourteen feet square and surrounded by a one-story veranda. The building was unique among stations, with cut off corners into which were installed windows, making it almost octagonal.

Around 1900, the Raleigh and Augusta Airline and other allied railroads merged and became the Seaboard Air Line Railway Company (now Seaboard Coast Line).

Pinebluff owes its very existence to the railroad, not only because it provided the main source of transportation and access to commerce to the town during the formative years, but, it is well to note, that John T. Patrick would never have selected this particular site were it not for the proximity of rails. The railroad companies further encouraged Pinebluff's development by funding much of Patrick's promotion and cooperating in providing service as needed to the struggling villages.