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 402 · Record date: 1880

Post office establishment application

Office / subject as indexed: Carmel

Alternate / proposed name: Mount Carmel; Gloveville (alternative)

Issued March 9; certified March 15, 1880 by Elizabeth A. Startzman (surname needs verification); received March 17. Heading Mount Carmel; proposed name Carmel. Note says it cannot be called Mount Carmel, it may be called Gladeville or Carmel. Union Township; Portland-Aurora route; lists Painters Mill, Horse Shoe Run, Cheat River and Wolf Creek. Number of inhabitants: 42. Population supplied: about 100

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NARA page 403 · Record date: 1880

Map / diagram

Office / subject as indexed: Carmel

Alternate / proposed name: Mount Carmel (map label)

Associated with page 402; received April 10, 1880. Hand-drawn map shows Mount Carmel, Aurora, Painters Mill, Wolf Creek, Northwestern Turnpike, country roads and post route from Portland to Aurora via Painters Mill. North is at bottom; note explains substitute for printed diagram. Map shows NW Turnpike through Aurora. County roads also shown.

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