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 573 · Record date: 1899

Post office establishment application

Office / subject as indexed: Manown

Alternate / proposed name: Millersport; Louise

Issued June 15; signed June 22, 1899 by Jesse M. Johnson, proposed postmaster. Heading Millersport; Louise crossed out and Manown added. Kingwood township; route 16187, Morgantown–Kingwood, six times weekly. Kingwood 3½ miles east, Reedsville 4½ miles west, Howesville 3½ miles easterly. Office 7 miles west of Cheat River, 2 miles east of Kanes Creek; West Virginia Northern Railroad named. Population eighty or more. Certified by J. W. White at Kingwood. Reverse on page 574.

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NARA page 574 · Record date: 1899

Blank diagram / reverse

Office / subject as indexed: Manown

Alternate / proposed name: Millersport; Louise

Reverse of page 573; name Masown written in margin. Printed map grid is essentially blank, with no labeled locality sketch.

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