MCCORDSVILLE A small, now-empty building on Broadway Street holds a large piece of McCordsvilles past. Now the town is working to preserve that rich history and put it on display for everybody in the community to learn about.

What started as a filling station later served as what many remember as the towns first post office. Over time, the building changed hands, operating as a barbershop and a used car lot.

For 80-year-old Larry Apple, the building represents more than just bricks and mortar. Its part of his familys legacy.

Oh, it's just good memories, Apple said. I used to get free candy there.

In the late 1940s, Apples father, Charles Chic Apple, left the U.S. Air Force and became McCordsvilles postmaster, working alongside his wife at what many consider the oldest mail depot in the

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