Preston County postal records
10 postal location images · Checked transcription · Research ongoing
Dates below identify the documents, not the office’s full operating period. Applications and proposed site changes should not be read as confirmed establishment or relocation dates. Original spellings and qualifications are retained in the checked index notes.
NARA page 344 · Record date: 1946
Office / subject as indexed: Aurora
Signed Glenn R. Mason, acting postmaster, August 22, 1946. New site on Route 50, 724 feet west of old site. Lists Amboy, Terra Alta, Eglon, Erwin, Cheat River and Big Wolf Creek. Received September 3, 1946.
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NARA page 345 · Record date: 1946
Office / subject as indexed: Aurora
Reverse associated with page 344 (date from location form). Sketch shows Route 50, Amboy, Erwin, Eglon and Cheat River. Stamped instructions refer to an accompanying map.
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NARA page 346 · Record date: 1946
Office / subject as indexed: Aurora
Map accompanying Aurora new-site papers; received September 3, 1946. Mark near Aurora on the highway. Also shows Amblersburg, Amboy, Brookside Inn, Erwin, Eglon, Horse Shoe Run and Breedlove. Map publication date not visible.
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NARA page 347 · Record date: 1942
Office / subject as indexed: Aurora
Dated May 9, 1942; received May 11. Signature appears to read Ernest Schrock. Office on U.S. 50; star-route mail from Terra Alta. Lists Amboy, Eglon, Erwin and Cheat River.
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NARA page 348 · Record date: 1942
Office / subject as indexed: Aurora
Reverse associated with page 347 (date from location form). Shows Aurora on U.S. Route 50, Amboy, Terra Alta, Erwin, Eglon, Horse Shoe Run, B&O Railroad and State Route 24.
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NARA page 349 · Record date: 1925
Office / subject as indexed: Aurora
Issued July 14, 1925; signed July 16 by acting postmaster Ernest Schrock. Proposed move 680 feet east. Lists Hutton Creek, Cheat River, Amboy, Eglon, Erwin and Terra Alta.
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NARA page 350 · Record date: 1925
Office / subject as indexed: Aurora
Associated with page 349 (date from form). Shows present/proposed office sites, Northwestern Turnpike, Amboy, Eglon, Erwin, Terra Alta, Horse Shoe Run, Cheat River and Tucker County line. Breedlove marked discontinued; rural and star routes shown.
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NARA page 351 · Record date: 1925
Office / subject as indexed: Aurora
States office moved July 15, 1925 following change in postmaster, for patrons' and postmaster's convenience. Lists 354 patrons within one mile. Star routes 16587 and 16588 and rural route 1; travel decrease 680 feet each route. Signed July 16; Ernest Schrock.
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NARA page 352 · Record date: 1911
Office / subject as indexed: Aurora
Issued December 19, 1910; signed January 2, 1911; received January 5. Signature appears to read Alum A. McCrum. Lists Wolf Creek, Cheat River, Carmel, Eglon, Horse Shoe Run and B&O Railroad at Rowlesburg.
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NARA page 353 · Record date: 1911
Office / subject as indexed: Aurora
Associated with page 352 (date from questionnaire). Detailed map shows R.D. No. 1 from Aurora and star route Terra Alta-Eglon-Breedlove. Includes Amboy, Carmel, Amblersburg, Rowlesburg, Sell, Maryland boundary and streams. Brookside, Hardesty Sell, and White marked discontinued.
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