Cuzzart Post Office Is Proposed

On April 20, 1884, Albert Engle certified a federal application to establish a post office called Cuzzart in Preston County’s Pleasant District. Engle was named as the proposed postmaster and estimated that the office would serve about 100 people. The application proposed a special mail arrangement from Willey and identified nearby offices at Morgans Glade, Willey, and Grantsville. A companion hand-drawn map shows the proposed Cuzzart site, nearby roads, Muddy Creek, and surrounding post offices. Joseph N. Miller, postmaster at Morgans Glade, certified the application. The papers document the community’s request for a post office, not its final approval or opening.

Cuzzart Pleasant District Preston County Morgans Glade Willey

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U.S. Post Office Department location paper and accompanying diagram for the proposed Cuzzart Post Office, certified April 20, 1884; National Archives and Records Administration

Open original application Open accompanying 1884 site map National Archives catalog record for the larger record group

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What the evidence establishes

The application is evidence that a Cuzzart post office was proposed in 1884. It does not itself establish the date on which the Post Office Department approved or opened the office.

Albert Engle signed as the proposed postmaster. Joseph N. Miller, postmaster at Morgans Glade, certified the application. The associated hand-drawn diagram identifies the proposed Cuzzart site and nearby roads, streams, and post offices.

Lulu Ringer’s 1980 History of Cuzzart says that Ashbel Chidester’s wife secured the name Cuzzart for the post office. Engle’s 1884 application confirms that Cuzzart was the name submitted to the Post Office Department, but does not identify who chose it.

Albert Engle was later appointed postmaster at Cuzzart on January 5, 1886. That appointment is documented in the linked 1886 entry.

Primary source documents

Application and map for the proposed Cuzzart Post Office

U.S. Post Office Department · 1884

National Archives and Records Administration record. These scanned pages are presented as the primary evidence for this entry.

Open either image for the full-size original. The first page names Albert Engle as proposed postmaster and Cuzzart as the proposed office; the second is its accompanying location diagram.