Preston County postal records

Hardesty

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Alternate or proposed names as indexed: Hardesty Store

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 484 · Record date: 1896

Post office establishment application

Office / subject as indexed: Hardesty

Alternate / proposed name: Hardesty Store

Issued February 29; signed March 5, 1896 by Proposed postmaster Lewis Wellington Hardesty. Union Township; proposed special office supplied from McComber. Lists McComber, Aurora, White, Cheat River, Big Wolf Creek, B&O Railroad and Rowlesburg station. Village population 20; population served 180.

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Hardesty: Post office establishment application, NARA page 484

National Archives · M1126, roll 651 · Preston_171_NARApage_484.jpg

NARA page 485 · Record date: 1896

Map / mail-supply explanation

Office / subject as indexed: Hardesty

Reverse associated with page 484; March 12 and July 24, 1896 receipt stamps. Map shows Hardesty, McComber, Rowlesburg, Amboy, Carmel, Aurora, White, Cheat River, Wolf Creek and Northwestern Pike. Note describes daily Terra Alta-Aurora mail and twice-weekly special service to White; requests supply from McComber because of railroad and road access.

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Hardesty: Map / mail-supply explanation, NARA page 485

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