Preston County postal records

Oriole

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Alternate or proposed names as indexed: Birds Creek

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 609 · Record date: 1904

Post office establishment application

Office / subject as indexed: Oriole

Signed February 27, 1904 by H. C. Williamson, proposed postmaster; certification by Mrs. Anna Wright, Howesville. Special office to be supplied from Howesville, 3 miles east; Newburg 5 miles west, Reedsville 9 miles NW. Cheat River 8 miles east; on Birds Creek. West Virginia Northern railroad named. About 200 people to serve. Map on page 610.

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Oriole: Post office establishment application, NARA page 609

National Archives · M1126, roll 651 · Preston_296_NARApage_609.jpg

NARA page 610 · Record date: 1904

Map / diagram

Office / subject as indexed: Oriole

Alternate / proposed name: Birds Creek

Reverse of page 609; year from application and receipt stamp. Kingwood township sketch labels proposed office at Birds Creek; Oriole written in margin. Shows Howesville, Tunnelton, Austen, Newburg, Kingwood and Reedsville, B. & O. and W. Va. Northern railroads, roads and pike. Map orientation differs from printed compass directions.

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