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 418 · Record date: 1892

Post office establishment application

Office / subject as indexed: Colebank

Issued February 18; signed March 3, 1892 by proposed postmaster Ulysses C. Cox. Reno District; special service proposed from Marquis, three times weekly. Lists Sinclair, Kasson, Marquis, Tygarts Valley River, Sandy Creek and Grafton & Greenbrier Railroad. Country store rather than village; population served about 500.

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NARA page 419 · Record date: 1892

Map / diagram

Office / subject as indexed: Colebank

Associated with page 418; received April 12, 1892. Reno Township. Map shows Colebank, Sinclair, Marquis, Kasson, Nestorville, Valley Furnace, Tygarts Valley River, branches of Sandy Creek, Brushy Creek and railroads.

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