{"id":1525,"date":"2026-01-11T17:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T23:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2026-07-29T07:21:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T12:21:29","slug":"brownsville-old-post-office-opened-in-1936","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/brownsville-old-post-office-opened-in-1936\/","title":{"rendered":"Brownsville Old Post Office Opened in 1936"},"content":{"rendered":"ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>The &#8220;old&#8221; Brownsville Post Office was built as part of the New Deal effort following the Great Depression.&nbsp; The Tennessean (Nashville) newspaper described the event (April 3, 1936; page 18)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>New Postoffice Opened<br \/>\nBrownsville, Tenn., April 2. \u2014(Spl)\u2014 The Brownsville postoffice moved into the new $55,000 ederal [sic] building here today. The structure was completed early this week. The new building is located on Washington street, just off the public square. Construction began last fall.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;old&#8221; Brownsville Post Office was built as part of the New Deal effort following the Great Depression.&nbsp; The Tennessean (Nashville) newspaper described the event (April 3, 1936; page 18) New Postoffice Opened Brownsville, Tenn., April 2. \u2014(Spl)\u2014 The Brownsville postoffice moved into the new $55,000 ederal [sic] building here today. The structure was completed early this week. The new building is located on Washington street, just off the public square. Construction began last fall. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,40,36,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communities","category-historic-sites","category-off-site-links","category-public-records"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2855,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions\/2855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}