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48 mailboxes seem sufficient for the population of Afton, Texas.  The signs advise that mail will be up by 9:30 and post office hours are M-F 8:00 - 12:30 and Saturday 8:00 to 10:00.  With recent post office closures, Afton is lucky to still have one.  The story goes that this community was first known as Patton Springs, which is the school's name, prior to the 1890s. The first post office was Beckton after the first postmaster; when it closed the community called itself Cottowood but reapplication for a post office had the name already in use.  So citizen Myra Kelly suggested the name Afton from the English song "Flow Gently, Sweet Afton."  The new post office opened in 1900 when the town was populated by Myra and nine of her friends.  There's not many more than that there today.

 

U. S. Post Office

Afton, Dickens County, Texas

6.13.2015