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 502 · Record date: 1888

Post office establishment application

Office / subject as indexed: Henry

Alternate / proposed name: Russell (additional proposed name); Albrights Mills (margin)

Issued December 8; signed December 15, 1888; received December 21. Proposed postmaster Arbannes Sylvester Albright; certified by Daniel Titchenell of Pleasant Hill. Russell added above Henry. Near route 12173, Terra Alta-Cranesville, three times weekly; requests special supply from Cranesville. Lists Cuzzart, Cheat River, Muddy Creek and B&O Railroad; population served over 100.

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NARA page 503 · Record date: 1888–1889

Map / diagram

Office / subject as indexed: Henry

Alternate / proposed name: Albrights Mills (margin)

Associated with page 502 (December 1888 application); Topographer receipt November 7, 1889. Margins identify Henry and Albrights Mills. Shows proposed office, Cranesville, Pleasant Hill, Terra Alta, Cheat River, Muddy Creek, railroad and Grant, Pleasant and Portland districts. Some labels are rotated or faint.

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