Preston County postal records
8 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 356 · Record date: 1868
Office / subject as indexed: Brandonville
Issued October 17; signed October 20, 1868 by J. E. Hagans. Grant Township; Big Sandy and Cheat River. Lists Bruceton Mills, Glade Farms and Morgans Glade.
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NARA page 357 · Record date: 1898
Office / subject as indexed: Brandonville
Issued October 28; signed October 29, 1898; received November 1. Postmaster signature Richard B. Waddel; Grant District; Bruceton Mills, Valley Point, Clifton Mills, Big Sandy Creek and Pennsylvania state line.
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NARA page 358 · Record date: 1898
Office / subject as indexed: Brandonville
Associated with page 357 (date from questionnaire). Shows Pennsylvania and Maryland state lines, Bruceton Mills, Clifton Mills, Glade Farms, Valley Point, Morgans Glade, Cheat River, roads and railroads.
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NARA page 359 · Record date: 1898
Office / subject as indexed: Brandonville
Letter dated October 25, 1898 (day appears to be 25), accompanying location information. Describes three daily return mail services connecting Kingwood, Somerfield, Pennsylvania, and Fairchance, Pennsylvania, via Bruceton Mills. Signature is Richard B. Waddel, Post Master
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NARA page 360 · Record date: 1907
Office / subject as indexed: Brandonville
Issued February 6; signed February 9, 1907 by William L. Nieman; received February 12. Site change noted as 60 feet west. Lists Bruceton Mills, Clifton Mills, Glade Farms, Big Sandy and Cheat River.
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NARA page 361 · Record date: 1907
Office / subject as indexed: Brandonville
Associated with page 360 (date from questionnaire). Shows Bruceton Mills, Clifton Mills, Glade Farms, Valley Point, Morgans Glade, Florence, Gibbon Glade and Elliottsville; roads and streams marked.
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NARA page 362 · Record date: 1942
Office / subject as indexed: Brandonville
Signed May 12, 1942 by James Galloway, acting postmaster. West Virginia Route 26; star route from Markleysburg and Albright. Lists B&O station at Albright, Big Sandy Creek, Clifton Mills, Valley Point and Bruceton Mills.
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NARA page 363 · Record date: 1942
Office / subject as indexed: Brandonville
Associated with page 362 (date from location form). Shows Brandonville, Bruceton, Clifton Mills, Valley Point, West Virginia Route 26 and Big Sandy Creek.
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