Preston County postal records

Lyon

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Alternate or proposed names as indexed: Sniders 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 563 · Record date: 1878–1879

Post office establishment application

Office / subject as indexed: Lyon

Alternate / proposed name: Sniders Store

Issued December 11, 1878; receipt stamps January 9 and February 3, 1879. Proposed postmaster John S. Snider; signature date blank. Heading Sniders Store; proposed name Lyon, Lyon District. On route 12260, Raccoon–Masontown, three times weekly, no extra travel. Gladesville 3½ miles NW, Reedsville 3½ miles NE, Newburg/B. & O. Railroad 9 miles south. Glades Creek 1 mile south; river entry amended to Cheat River. Population 106. Marginal petition remarks partly faint.

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Lyon: Post office establishment application, NARA page 563

National Archives · M1126, roll 651 · Preston_250_NARApage_563.jpg

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