Comments on: Fire Destroys Cottage Hill Building

By: Marion L Runkle

Marion L Runkle — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 03:29:44 +0000

My grandparents (the Mathis’) lived next door & we would drive down from Norfolk each summer to visit family. I used to go to the post ofc to get stamps to mail post cards as a kid. My cousins & I used to play with the boy whose father ran the little store on the other side of my grandma’s house. That was in the fifties. My mother told me that when she was an Army nurse in WW II, she would take the train home on leave & her father would walk her across the hwy to catch the train to go back & he would take a hankie out & flag the train down to stop for her.
So many good memories!!

By: david lamb

david lamb — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 21:28:53 +0000

Cottage Hill School, now a Baptist Church, Methodist Church Baptisms on Big Rock Creek (my grandpa, Gerald Otto Commings land) growing up on Williams Ditch farm. Chavers Dairy, Rickmans Store and Joyce Rickkman, Havards store, post office, grocery/Laundropmat. Just a few of my yyouthful memopries of Cottage Hill.
How bout some other of your memories of this sleepy whistle stop!

By: Barbara shoemo

Barbara shoemo — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 20:44:32 +0000

This building was historical in cottage hill,fl.our little town,where everyone knew each other,we had to go there to get our mail,ms Tipton knew us by name!!I love the cottage Hill history. The laundromat at one time was a grocery store owned by Mr sanders,then Mr Jim Tipton,then a laundromat Pete Tipton. Cottage hill ,are we going to help with restoring this piece history, it can keep us on the map!☺we want our sign back too,that says COTTAGE HILL on hwy 29,please county commissioner!!? I still tell people I live in COTTAGE HILL.

By: Sarah Ann Cook

Sarah Ann Cook — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 14:39:58 +0000

So sad to see another part of the old Cottage Hill community gone. I grew up there and everyone knew Ms. Tipton, she was such a sweet lady. Time moves on and things do change, but it’s not always a happy thing to see part of our past life gone forever. Thank goodness for memories. Ann Richburg Cook

By: old man

old man — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 00:46:09 +0000

the laundramat was in the brick building north of this at one time this was the gonzalez post office the notery was in the house south ( next door ) to the building that burned

By: Puddin

Puddin — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 00:41:03 +0000

Glad no one was hurt. Good job to our firemen and women

By: 429SCJ

429SCJ — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 23:01:51 +0000

Miz Tipton’s United States Post Office was housed in that building, until it’s closure in the 1970s.

I remember when I was a boy in cub scouts, riding my bike to Miz Tipton’s, to get my Pinewood Derby car weighed on Miz Tipton’s postal scale.

I remember she would hang the mail bag on the postal rail platform, the train would p/u that bag and drop off the incoming via rail mail bag.

That Post Office should have been preserved in the state historic register, now all is lost to histor, save our memories.

By: mike

mike — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 22:31:14 +0000

I believe there used to be a notary public in biz there years ago, not sure. Was a laundromat around there too, somewhere in a building close by. Was a brick building down the road from there, defunct biz even 43 years ago, long since torn down. The house that burned had been empty for many years I think. Weeds had kinda taken it over. Good thing no other houses were close.