Bostic, NC

Bostic's name changed from Black Oak to Bostick and then to Bostic, a sequence that sits alongside the town's railroad history. The Carolina Central Railway reached Rutherfordton in 1887, and Bostic's post office was established that same year. The town incorporated in 1893 with its limits drawn around the railroad depot; by 1910, the population had reached 209, and a freight elevator moved cargo between the Clinchfield and Seaboard lines.

Pea Ridge Road and Old Sunshine Highway held a roughly one-hundred-yard business district with a cotton gin, post office, lodge, dry-goods store, and hat shop. The Bostic brickyard later produced as many as 60,000 bricks a day, using clay from the Broad River area. The 1922 Bostic Charge Parsonage, a Craftsman bungalow built for five Methodist churches, is listed in the National Register, and Town Hall sits about half a mile away. In July 2026, the town posted an Old Sunshine Road closure for stormwater construction, a reminder that the historic corridor remains a working street.