Duck / Fain Post Office

Two Fain brothers, John and David, settled in Choestoe, Union County, Georgia about 1832. The following events were taking place on the land they later sold. John W. Duckworth applied to the US Postal Service and was granted permission to open a post office. It was approved and opened July 14, 1884. The post office was set up at the intersection of the present Fain Branch Road and Town Creek School Road. He named it the Duck Post Office, using the first syllable of his last name. On June 14, 1892, Duckworth's son-in-law, John P. Collins, became postmaster. He applied for a name change, and the post office became known as the Fain Post Office to honor the early settler Fain brothers, John and David. The post office was discontinued on March 30, 1907, but that section of Town Creek in Choestoe District is still sometimes referred to as Fain, Georgia.

c2004 by Ethelene Dyer Jones;
published April 12, 2004 in The Union Sentinel, Blairsville, GA. 
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