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| View | Add FavoriteFirst a little history for you....at one time, there were four tiny villages in all directions from where King is today. On September 11, 1812, John Fulk sold to Frederick Fiscus and Adam Fulk two acres on which they built the Bethlehem Lutheran Church.This area is about one mile north of present King. Trinity Methodist Church was organized in 1873. Also, near this site, H. C. Coe operated a general store and shoe shop. M. T. Choplin, a dealer in general merchandise operated a large store where Kirby Road comes into East King Street today. This was near the cabin where Charles King and his bride Francers Kiser built in 1826. The land was given to Frances by her father, Harmonius Kiser. This general area was known locally as "King's Cabin". The village of Five Forks, so named because of the five roads that converged there, was a lively place beginning about 1871 when a post office was established there. Five Forks was on the stage coach road from Bethania to the Hollow Road at Trinity Church and northward. The Hollow Road came through King, but there was no business activity there until 1880 when John Wesley Spainhour bought 100 acres from W. M. Watts. Mr. Spainhour sold much of this land to Lewis Grabs and sons Lazarus and Virgil who built a large store and manufacturing plant. The King's Cabin Post Office opened in March 1888 and the first train came through in June of 1888. S. R. Slate, first postmaster, named the post office "King's Cabin" because the area had been known by that name for 60 years. King would only have been a whistle stop on the railroad had it not been for the far sighted planning of the Spainhour, Grabs, Slate and a few other families. They built a depot and sold it to the railroad for $1.00. The railroad changed the name to King and the post office did the same in 1894.