Preston County postal records
7 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 411 · Record date: 1942
Office / subject as indexed: Clifton Mills
Issued May 8; signed May 11, 1942 by Mildred M. Michael. Grant District; Fayette County, Pennsylvania, nearest adjoining county. Lists Uniontown railroads, Big Sandy Creek, Gibbon Glade and Brandonville. Star-route mail from Markleysburg and Gibbon Glade, Pennsylvania.
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NARA page 412 · Record date: 1928
Office / subject as indexed: Clifton Mills
Issued May 29; signed June 9, 1928 by Ralph E. Caton. Northern Grant District; Cheat River and Big Sandy. Lists Gibbon Glade, Brandonville and Glade Farms; no railroad nearer than Uniontown or Albright.
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NARA page 413 · Record date: 1928
Office / subject as indexed: Clifton Mills
Associated with page 412 (date from questionnaire). Circular sketch shows Clifton Mills, Elliottsville, Gibbon Glade, Brandonville, Bruceton Mills, Glade Farms, Pisgah and Big Sandy Creek. Signature George D. Evans Postmaster
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NARA page 414 · Record date: 1898
Office / subject as indexed: Clifton Mills
Issued October 28; signed November 1, 1898 by George D. Evans; received November 2. Grant District; route 16185. Lists Cheat River, Sandy Creek, Brandonville, Gibbons Glade and Wirsing, Pennsylvania; B&O Railroad 14 miles away.
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NARA page 415 · Record date: 1898
Office / subject as indexed: Clifton Mills
Associated with page 414 (date from questionnaire). Circular sketch shows Sandy Creek, Brandonville 2 1/2 miles away, Gibbons Glade 3 miles and Wirsing, Pennsylvania, 4 miles.
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NARA page 416 · Record date: 1874
Office / subject as indexed: Clifton Mills
Issued June 2; certified June 23, 1874; received June 26. Proposed postmaster David Frankhauser (surname spelling needs verification). Grant District; route 2959, Brandonville-Farmington, weekly mail. Lists Gibbons Glade, Brandonville, Cheat River, Big Sandy and Falls City depot; village population 35, population served 125.
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NARA page 417 · Record date: 1874
Office / subject as indexed: Clifton Mills
Associated with page 416 (date from application). Hand-drawn map on printed grid shows Clifton Mills, Big Sandy, neighboring offices and roads; some faint labels need verification. Clifton Mills, Preston County, West Virginia annotated in margin.
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