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 396 · Record date: 1900

Post office establishment application

Office / subject as indexed: Bull Run

Alternate / proposed name: Day (alternative proposal)

Issued February 19; certified February 26, 1900 by J. S. Radabaugh; certified by Geo. A. Rohr, postmaster at Rohr. Proposed names Bull Run or Day. Valley District; special office supplied from Masontown. Lists Herring, Rohr, Cheat River and Bull Run. Described as a country store, not a village; population served about 100.

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NARA page 397 · Record date: 1900

Map / diagram

Office / subject as indexed: Bull Run

Alternate / proposed name: Day (alternative proposal)

Associated with page 396 (date from application). Shows Bull Run or Day, Masontown, Herring, Rohr, Dells low/Dellslow, Reedsville, Kingwood, Morgantown, Tunnelton and Bruceton, plus county/state boundaries and railroads. Requests triweekly service on same schedule as Herring route 16190.

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