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Woodward Post Office – The Yorkville Enquirer of Oct. 16, 1879 reported – “The PO known as Youngsville has been changed to Woodward.”
The Yorkville Enquirer reported on Oct. 27, 1886 – “The railroad Depot at Woodward on the CC and A railroad was destroyed by fire last Sunday. Also lost were 78 bales of cotton. The building was owned by Brice and Co., the loss is estimated at about $4,000.”
City Directory and History: Constructed prior to 1896, by Thomas Woodward. It was in 1896, that the son of Confederate Major T.W. Brice, acquired the home. It has been in the Brice family for three generations.
Besides extensively farming the family also owned and operated the handsome Brice Store in Woodward, S.C. until 1984 when Carolyn and James Brice stopped operating the store. The original Brice home was constructed in circa 1908 by a Mr. Kell who upon completion of the Woodard-Brice home is reported to have later constructed the Angus Stewart home across the road from the Brice home-place.
Postal Map from 1896, showing the locations of the P.O. sites north of Winnsboro in Fairfield County. Courtesy of the Un. of N.C.
The family states the store was constructed in circa 1865 by Major T.W. Brice who was returning from the Civil War after being wounded. The Brice family operated the store for three generations and only closed due to James Brice’s ill health.
Besides the few homes that currently remain in 2013 in Woodward, there were also two cotton gins, a train depot, loading railroad platform, and hundreds of individual who called Woodward their home.
Open the MORE INFORMATION link (found under the primary picture), to view an enlargeable, 1896 Postal Map of Fairfield County, S.C. (This is the heart of Woodward’s Community but R&R does not know the exact location of the PO)
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T.W. Brice, a Confederate veteran, acquired the property for the family in the late 19th century.
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