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NARA page 444 · Record date: 1903

Post office establishment application

Office / subject as indexed: Dayton

Issued February 19; signed February 24, 1903 by Mrs. Ada Rinehart. Addressed D. C. Stemple, care of Aurora. Route 16500, Terra Alta-Aurora, six times weekly; proposed supply would add 2 miles. Lists Aurora, Hardesty, Carmel, Cheat River, Big Wolf Creek and B&O Railroad; population served about 110.

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NARA page 445 · Record date: 1903

Map / diagram

Office / subject as indexed: Dayton

Associated with page 444 (date from application). Shows Dayton, Aurora, Carmel, Amboy, Terra Alta, Rowlesburg, Hardesty, Sell, White, Eglon, Horseshoe Run, Breedlove and Brookside; B&O Railroad, roads and streams. Printed post office naming instructions below map.

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