A Postal History Mystery - Manry, VA Postmark

I was searching through some of the offerings on Buck-a-Cover and came up with this interesting one. The Buck-a-Cover website incorrectly describes it as Manry, Pennsylvania. When I realized that was an error, I came up with the fact that the cover is actually a last day of use postmark from Manry, Virginia ... obviously a discontinued post office that was only in operation for some 33 years, from 1899-1932:



Now for the interesting part.

I tried to do some checking as to where Manry, VA is (or was) and came up with very little other than that it was located in Southampton County, in the very southern part of Virginia somewhat near the North Carolina state line. The town apparently did exist at one time. It no longer exists on any current maps. What is most odd is that there is little information at all about the town (at least not that I can find through internet searches) other than a small cemetery that goes by the name Manry that is in the area.

In fact, the US Postal Service doesn't recognize the town to even identify the next nearest post office. Neither does Google maps.

So where was Manry, VA and why did it disappear off the map?

I did find a topographical map dating as late as 1969 that shows Manry, VA, which basically seems as if it was in the middle of nowhere in an area with heavy forestry:



I also found reference to a personal travelogue of someone who was driving through that area and referred to it as follows:




The fact that a train once stopped there also brought me to a Virginia Gazetteer from 1904 that shows it was a station at one time:



I still don't know much else about the town or why it disappeared. The only thing I can figure is that it folded up during the middle of of the Great Depression and people must have moved on to more populated places.

Does anyone else have any other information about this former town?

I suspect that a discontinued post office that was only in operation for 33 years would be a relatively rare postmark, however, the cover shown at the beginning of this post can be had for under $2 at Buck-a-Cover and it certainly seems as though it makes for an interesting piece of postal history.