A Preston County community
Manheim’s timeline follows the Buckhorn Portland Cement Company’s operations beginning in 1903 and the later acquisition of the plant by Alpha Portland Cement. The community page keeps that industrial story alongside its postal documents, which record the office and its surrounding landscape at several points in time.
This overview draws on the connected timeline entries and the checked National Archives postal index. Follow the links below for sources and research qualifications.Community timeline
June 1903
The Buckhorn Portland Cement Company began operating its Manheim plant in June 1903. An earlier notice in the Preston County Journal of March 12 sought able-bodied laborers for the cement works near Rowlesburg at 15 cents per…
Open event and sourcesBy March 4, 1909
By March 4, 1909, Alpha had purchased the Buckhorn Portland Cement Company’s plant at Manheim. That day’s Preston County Journal reported the completed transfer and plans for $250,000 in repairs before operations resumed. It…
Open event and sourcesSeven indexed records from 1898 to 1942 include establishment applications, maps, a location questionnaire, and a related certification or diagram page. They trace the office through the same period in which the Manheim cement works became an important local industrial story.
Explore all 7 postal recordsRecord dates are not necessarily office opening or closing dates. Applications and proposed moves retain their original qualifications.
National Archives · M1126, roll 651 · NARA pages 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, 572. View the original collection.