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 689 · Record date: 1907

Post-office application

Office / subject as indexed: West End

Issued Feb. 9, 1907; received Feb. 25. Addressed to D. M. DeHaas at Tunnelton. Proposed office 20 feet south of B&O railroad at West End station. Tunnelton 1½ miles east; Denver north (distance unclear). Cheat River 10 miles east; Raccoon Creek runs through settlement. West End and [unclear] population 150. Additional faint stamp appears 1906; conflicts with form date.

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NARA page 690 · Record date: 1907

Application reverse / certification

Office / subject as indexed: West End

Reverse of page 689. D. M. DeHaas named proposed postmaster; certified by S. E. Sterling, postmaster at Denver. April 1907 receipt stamp; day uncertain. Printed map grid left blank.

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NARA page 691 · Record date: 1900

Post-office application

Office / subject as indexed: West End

Issued Jan. 23; signed Feb. 20, 1900 by Wm. Ramsay, proposed postmaster; addressed to Wm. H. Gorman, Baltimore. Certified by W. B. Taylor, Tunnelton. Northwestern Reno; route 16741 Sinclair–Tunnelton, proposed diversion adds 1½ miles. Tunnelton 1¼ miles east, Austen 2 miles west, Howesville about 5 miles north. Office stated 4 miles south of Cheat River and 100 feet south of Raccoon Creek; 28 feet south of B&O at West End station. Population 75, expected to reach 500.

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NARA page 692 · Record date: 1900

Location map

Office / subject as indexed: West End

Map associated with page 691 application; year from application. Shows West End, Tunnelton, Austen, Newburg, Kingwood, Howesville, Buckhorn, Rowlesburg, Evansville, Fellowsville, Morgan, and Sinclair; B&O and West Virginia Northern railroads, roads, and river.

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