CSA 11, 10¢ blue used with RICHMOND / VA cds partly struck off cover at top, Confederate States of America, War Department, Surgeon General’s Office. (WD-MD-04, CV $400) imprinted envelope addressed in bold hand to Mrs. T. M. Dykers, Planters Hotel, Cheraw, S.C. $200.

The Cheraw Hotel--The Cheraw Hotel, at one time known as the Planter's Hotel, once stood on the northeast corner of Market and Third Streets where the present post office is located. This hotel was once a stage tavern and boarded such notables as John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay and Sam Houston. A 1908 Cheraw Chronicle account of the hotel states, "The stageline of that day, for there were no railroads here, ran from Washington, D.C., to Texas, and fortunately for her inhabitants, Cheraw was on the line. So that a great event of each day was the arrival of the two lumbering coaches, one going north and the other west." The Cheraw Hotel burned around 1918 or 1919 and the lot remained empty until the U.S. Government bought it in 1931.

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