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Colorized Postcards


Postcard showing a large red courthouse surrounded by trees.

Johnston County Courthouse built in 1843 - demolished for replacement

Postcard showing a large white neoclassical building with columns.

Johnston County Courthouse built in 1921 - and still in service

Postcard showing a red brick building on a corner in downtown Smithfield

Bank of Smithfield built in 1913, later enlarged as home of First Citizens Bank

Postcard showing a large red building with a large dome and white porticos with columns

Centenary United Methodist Church, Smithfield - built in 1914

Postcard showing a large colonial-revival style red brick building

Smithfield School built in 1922 - destroyed by fire in 1976

Postcard showing a two story colonial-revival red brick building

Johnston County Hospital built in 1930 - Department of Social Services today

Postcard showing a row of brown older style downtown buildings with an awning out front

Main Street, Benson, c. 1910 - view looking east from railroad tracks

Postcard showing a white train station building with a brown roof

Original Selma Union Station - replaced by present-day structure in 1924

Postcard showing a tobacco market with hundreds of bales of tobacco under an exposed-rafter warehouse roof

Typical warehouse scene on the Smithfield Tobacco Market, c. 1930

Postcard showing a scenic lake with a boat and white buildings in the background, trees in the foreground

Holt Lake recreation complex as it appeared in the 1950s

Here's a link to the University of North Carolina's postcard collection



Page last updated:  September 10, 2025