{"id":871,"date":"2025-12-25T13:47:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T18:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/?p=871"},"modified":"2025-12-25T13:47:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T18:47:01","slug":"gerald-largen-remembers-the-old-kingston-post-office-and-local-attorneys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/gerald-largen-remembers-the-old-kingston-post-office-and-local-attorneys\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerald Largen Remembers the Old Kingston Post Office and Local Attorneys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(from the Roane Heritage Commission Facebook page, posted&nbsp; December 4, 2025)<\/p>\n<p>Caption on the Facebook post:&nbsp; &nbsp;The Kingston Post office, which was located on Kentucky Street where First Baptist Church of Kingston added on to their church, was built in 1955.&nbsp; <strong>Gerald Largen<\/strong> wrote an article about it.&nbsp; The interesting part (and I have heard <strong>Gerald<\/strong> talk about it) is the way the Kingston people parked when they visited the post office. I&#8217;ve posted the article which also talks about the law offices of <strong>Sterling Roberts<\/strong> and <strong>Kenneth Deatherage<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The date and source of the original publication were not indicated.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(from the Roane Heritage Commission Facebook page, posted&nbsp; December 4, 2025) Caption on the Facebook post:&nbsp; &nbsp;The Kingston Post office, which was located on Kentucky Street where First Baptist Church of Kingston added on to their church, was built in <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/gerald-largen-remembers-the-old-kingston-post-office-and-local-attorneys\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,24,36,43,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communities","category-families-individuals","category-historic-sites","category-newspapers-periodicals","category-professions-and-professionals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":873,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}