Dabney Post Office

Dabney Post Office
Location KY 39, Dabney, Kentucky
Coordinates 37°10′57″N 84°33′0″W / 37.18250°N 84.55000°W / 37.18250; -84.55000Coordinates: 37°10′57″N 84°33′0″W / 37.18250°N 84.55000°W / 37.18250; -84.55000
Area 0.1 acres (0.040 ha)
Built c. 1900
Built by Ped May
MPS Pulaski County MRA
NRHP Reference # 84001954[1]
Added to NRHP August 14, 1984

The Dabney Post Office is a historic post office located on Kentucky Route 39 in Dabney, Kentucky. The one-story wood frame building served as Dabney's community store and post office. Ped May built the post office around 1900; May ran both the store and the post office. The post office served as the social hub of Dabney, a common function of combination store and post office buildings in Pulaski County; the Dabney Post Office is one of the few surviving buildings of this type. The post office closed in the 1960s.[2]

The post office was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 14, 1984.[1]

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