FIRST POST OFFICE IN FRANKLINTON
This structure, first known as the "Cloud House" contained the first post
office of Franklinton.
Abraham Deardurf, has wife Katherine and son David came from Pennsylvania over a mountain trail on horseback to Franklinton in the year 1798.
Abraham Deardurf, has wife Katherine and son David came from Pennsylvania over a mountain trail on horseback to Franklinton in the year 1798.
David's house was known as the "Cloud House." It is built of huge logs, now covered with weather-boarding. In the front room of the house was the first post office of Franklinton. Of special interest is the fact that many members of the Deardurf family were buried in the old Franklinton Cemetery.
Martin's History of Franklin County contains the following reference to the first post office.
"For seven or eight years after the first settlement of Franklinton, there was no post office nearer than Chillicothe . . . Colonel Andrew McElvain of Logan County, Illinois, for many years a prominent citizen of Franklin County, was, when but a boy, the first mail carrier between Chillicothe and Franklinton."
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