“Likely, CSA President Jefferson Davis traveled close to or along this route to the Brick House stage stop after passing Duncan Creek Presbyterian Church.”
City Directories and History: Reported to have been constructed in 1910, where John S. Bell operated a general store from 1910-1949. It was once of five old commercial buildings once found at Renno.
In 2018, little remains of the country store but it is evident that it served a small rural community that had prospered at the end of the 19th century and by 1910 had for the most part rebounded from the economic horrors of the Civil War.
1917 POSTAL MAP SHOWING RENNO AS A WHISTLE STOP ON THE RAILROAD
***Historian, Harvey S. Teal’s S.C. Post Office History, 1989 states: the Bell’s Store Post Office operated from 1820 – 1824, David Bell – Postmaster.
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