Preston County postal records
6 postal location images · 2 postmaster register images · Checked transcription · Research ongoing
Alternate or proposed names as indexed: Glades
Two federal records document Reedsville’s postmasters, including Arzana M. Ward’s 1918 entry and the postmasters who followed her. The dates below describe entries in the records, not complete terms of service. Abbreviations and differences between the two records are preserved.
Printed pages 565–566. The transcription covers only the Reedsville line, not the other offices on this shared page.
This office card continues with James D. Huber and records later appointments through Glenn R. Holmes, whose retirement is recorded in 1971.
Read about Arzana Ward’s service at Reedsville and Arthurdale
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.
NARA page 632 · Record date: 1942
Office / subject as indexed: Reedsville
Issued May 8; dated May 9, 1942; received May 11. Postmaster signature appears WW Smith. Monongalia County 4 air / 6 road miles. W. Va. Route 92 twenty feet east; Reedsville B. & O. station 0.16 mile west, nearest track 0.10 mile west. Deckers Creek 0.2 mile west. Arthurdale 1.4 miles west, Bretz 2.5 miles north. Star-route mail from Morgantown and Terra Alta. Map on page 633.
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NARA page 633 · Record date: 1942
Office / subject as indexed: Reedsville
Reverse of page 632; year from questionnaire. Printed regional highway-map clipping placed over square grid, showing Reedsville and surrounding Preston, Monongalia, Marion, Taylor, Barbour and Tucker county communities and numbered highways. Circular diagram unused. No separate date.
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NARA page 634 · Record date: 1905
Office / subject as indexed: Reedsville
Issued June 2; signed June 30, 1905 by Emma Katharine Watson; received July 8. Office 10 miles west of Cheat River and ¾ mile NE of Deckers Creek. Route 16666; Manown 4 miles SE, Bretz 2¼ miles NW, Reesing to NE (distance unclear). Office ½ mile NE of Morgantown & Kingwood railroad track. County boundary 3 air miles away. Map on page 635.
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NARA page 635 · Record date: 1905
Office / subject as indexed: Reedsville
Reverse of page 634; year from questionnaire. Detailed circular sketch shows Reedsville, Masontown, Rohr, Gladesville, Manown and Kingwood, M. & K. Railroad, roads, Deckers Creek, Dillons Creek, waters of Three Forks Creek, Morgans Run, Greens Run and Cheat River. No separate date.
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NARA page 636 · Record date: 1876
Office / subject as indexed: Reedsville
Issued August 16; signed August 18, 1876 by William R. [surname unclear]; received August 22. Valley township. Office 10 miles west of Cheat River and 1 mile east of Deckers Creek. Route 12260; Plainview 4 miles west, Masontown 3 miles north, Kingwood 8 miles east. Railroad entry places office north of B. & O., with Raccoon station named; distance entry unclear. Several overwritten fields.
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NARA page 637 · Record date: 1868
Office / subject as indexed: Reedsville
Alternate / proposed name: Glades
Issued October 17; signed November 6, 1868 by David Wheeler; received November 12. Very faint handwriting. Local name apparently [unclear] Glades; Valley township. Cheat River 10 miles east, Deckers Creek nearby to south. Gladesville apparently 6 miles west, Kingwood 8 miles east, Masontown 3 miles north. Additional notes mention Morgantown and Tunnelton. Surveyor Edward J. Norris, Kingwood. Distances and some words need verification.
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