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.

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NARA page 376 · Record date: 1884

Post office establishment application

Office / subject as indexed: Brookside

Issued November 14; certified November 27, 1884 by proposed postmaster William Frush; received December 4. Union Township; route 12270, Oakland, Maryland-St. George, West Virginia. Lists Eglon, Carmel, Youghiogheny River, Rhine Creek and B&O station at Oakland. Estimated population served 100.

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NARA page 377 · Record date: 1884

Map / diagram

Office / subject as indexed: Brookside

Associated with page 376 (date from application). Shows Brookside, Eglon, Horse Shoe Run and Oakland, Maryland, with old route and proposed routing through Brookside.

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