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 504 · Record date: 1890

Post office establishment application

Office / subject as indexed: Herring

Alternate / proposed name: Fieldsville (application heading)

Issued January 13; signed February 3, 1890; received February 11. Proposed postmaster G. A. Herring; certified by Felix Elliott Jr., Kingwood. Requests special supply from Masontown, 3½ miles NW; lists Kingwood and Albrights, Cheat River and Bull Run. Not a village; population served 250. Railroad entry amended; Tunnelton, Kingwood, and Fairchance

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NARA page 505 · Record date: 1890

Map / diagram

Office / subject as indexed: Herring

Alternate / proposed name: Fieldsville (map label)

Associated with page 504 (date from application). Margin identifies Herring; proposed office labeled Fieldsville or Herring. Sketch shows Cheat River, Masontown, Reedsville, Kingwood, Albrights, Tunnelton, Independence, Terra Alta and B&O Railroad, with mail connections. Several labels are rotated or obscured by heavy ink.

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