Post 28 Receives its Charter

Following authorization by Congress of September 16, 1919, Spartanburg Post No. 28 with County Court Judge Bobo Burnett as Commander and the late John D. Hamer, Adjutant, was organized October 1, 1919 and received its charter June 29, 1921.
There were 184 charter members, a majority having served as either non-com or commissioned officers. Membership rose to about 1200 immediately following the end of WWII.

The first meeting place in the fall of 1919 was the office of Blowers Livery Stable, a site later used by the Chamber of Commerce. The second meeting place was held every Friday night in the law offices of John D. Hamer on Morgan Square. The third meeting place in the 1920s was the unoccupied second floor of Hallman’s Filling Station and Garage at the corner of Magnolia and Short Wofford Streets. The budding Drum & Bugle Corps practiced there after each meeting, winding up with a march through downtown streets to keep in trim. During the 1930s, the next meeting place was on the top floor of Dr. N. T. Clark’s drug store, corner East Main and S. Dean Streets. With the completion of the Legion Home in Duncan Park in 1937, meetings have been held there since.