Preston County postal records

Raccoon

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Alternate or proposed names as indexed: Independence; Racoon

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 629 · Record date: 1868

Post office location questionnaire

Office / subject as indexed: Raccoon

Alternate / proposed name: Independence; Racoon

Issued October 17; signed October 22, 1868; postmaster signature faint and unclear. Local name Independence. Tygarts Valley river 11 miles west; office on north side of Raccoon Creek. Newburg 1¼ miles east, Thornton 6 miles west, Evansville 5 miles south, Fellowsville 8 miles SE. Surveyor Edward J. Norris, Kingwood. Several fields and overwritten county/state entries faint.

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Raccoon: Post office location questionnaire, NARA page 629

National Archives · M1126, roll 651 · Preston_316_NARApage_629.jpg

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