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Blair House circa 2008

Old Buckhead was located in the general area between Highway 215 and secondary road 18 and may have started as Means P.O. Means P.O., appears in the records, as the earliest post office in northwestern Fairfield District. The post office was probably located in the store of Thomas Means, frequently referred to as a merchant of Old Buckhead. An 1888 newspaper account states that “a large buck’s head adorned the lintel of the post office, and this circumstance gave the place its name.” Later, Buckhead P.O. was located west of Old Buckhead on secondary road 31 north of Highway 34. Postmasters of Buckhead P.O. included John Q. Arnett in 1851, Wesley Mayfield in 1865, J. Feaster Lyles in 1875 and T.D. Feaster in 1885. Neither Old Buckhead nor Buckhead P.O. were probably ever larger than a couple of stores and a cotton gin. During the Civil War a group of volunteers from western Fairfield organized as the Buckhead Guards. In 1883 Buckhead P.O. was the location of a single store and in 1923 was placed on the list of discontinued post offices in Fairfield County. (Information from: Names in South Carolina by C.H. Neuffer, Published by the S.C. Dept. of English, USC)
Courtesy of the SC Dept. of Archives and History – 1983

Courtesy of the SC Dept. of Archives and History – 1983

 Courtesy of the SC Dept. of Archives and History – 1983

Courtesy of the SC Dept. of Archives and History – 1983

 Courtesy of the SC Dept. of Archives and History – 1983

Courtesy of the SC Dept. of Archives and History – 1983

 Courtesy of the SC Dept. of Archives and History – 1983

Courtesy of the SC Dept. of Archives and History – 1983

2592 Buckhead Road – Lyle’s Home at Buckhead / Buckhead Post Office

Get Directions Latitude: 34.453293     Longitude: -81.357879

City Directories and History: The Oaks or Buckhead Post Office, it was built about 1815-20 by Thomas Lyles (1776-1874), a son of first settler Arromanus Lyles who procured the land grants for his progeny in documented land grands around 1760. Thomas Lyles, called Captain Lyles, for his affiliation with the Nullification Army around 1832…supplied a slave, horse and equipment in the Civil War as he was too old to participate. His sons, Thomas Woodward and William Strother Lyles (who signed the Ordinance of Secession) left multiple descendants, possibly totaling four or five thousand descendants in 2013.

Postal Map from 1896, showing the locations of the P.O. sites in western Fairfield County. Courtesy of the Un. of N.C.

Postal Map from 1896, showing the locations of the P.O. sites in western Fairfield County. Note the location of the Buckhead P.O.  Courtesy of the Un. of N.C.

The home was restored extensively by Mr. John Collins of Columbia, SC and Mr. and Mrs. Dru Blair, the current owners,  have continued the ongoing efforts and care of the Oaks.

Click on the More Information > link to find additional data – A Fairfield County Sketchbook, by J.S. Bolick, 2000 (Courtesy of the FCHS)

*** Historian Harvey S. Teal’s South Carolina Postal History, 1989 states: the “Buckhead Post Office was originally operated by Postmaster, Mr. Daniel H. Kerr.  It operated from 1825 – the Civil War.”

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SCDAH image from 1983 prior to restoration.

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