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 431 · Record date: 1881

Post office establishment application

Office / subject as indexed: Courtney

Issued March 21; signed April 2, 1881 by Richard Shahan; received April 4. Danville (Kasson)-Fellowsville route, weekly mail. Lists Fellowsville, Ridgeway, Rowlesburg, Cheat River and Sandy Creek. Population served probably 200 or more; nearest PO on same route is Fellowsville 1.5 miles North West and Ridgeway 5.5 miles south.

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NARA page 432 · Record date: 1881

Unused diagram / explanatory note

Office / subject as indexed: Courtney

Reverse associated with page 431 (date from application). Grid unfilled. Margin explains proposed office is directly on Kasson-Fellowsville route and the only suitable intermediate point, so a map was considered unnecessary. Courtney, Preston County, West Virginia written in margins.

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NARA page 433 · Record date: 1881

Duplicate view / explanatory note

Office / subject as indexed: Courtney

Rotated closer view of the same unfilled diagram and handwritten note on page 432. Explains why no map was supplied for proposed office on Kasson-Fellowsville route; date from associated application on page 431.

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