Post offices - West Virginia.

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Copies of two items relating to early post office history in West Virginia: 1) "Synopsis of Postal Laws and Regulations" compiled by John H. Zevely; 2) "Post Office Bulletin" for January 1875, Vol. IX, No. 1, published in Wheeling, West Virginia.

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The ledgers of a rural Wetzel County post office containing receipts and combined registers of money orders issued and cash books recording the sale of postage stamps and domestic money orders. There is also an account book of the Charles S. Phillips General Store containing along with the ledger receipts, business papers and personal letters.

Scope and Contents Additional business records of the firm operating under the names of M.J. Garrison and Bro., in Wadestown, W.Va., including cash books, bank books and ledgers. Business activities include the operation of a general store; livestock purchase and sale; wool purchase and sale, principally in the capacity of purchasing agent for James Auld and Son; school and county orders cashed for teaching, and building of the Range Bridge. Quarterly post office financial reports; Wadestown Telephone Co.,...

Overview Scrapbook and other records documenting the history of the Morgantown post office. Includes news clippings, photographs, pamphlets, and papers. Many clippings deal with postmaster appointments and changes in postal employee conditions such as pay raises and working hours. Many pictures and articles document the construction of the previous post office, now the Morgantown Arts Center, as well as the present post office. There are also clippings about natives of Morgantown serving in the...

Scope and Contents The record of forms and in most cases map sketches on which local postmasters supplied data to the Topographer of the U.S. Post Office Department for use in determining post office site locations relative to nearby post offices, transportation routes and facilities. There is not an exact standardization of all reports. Earlier reports may not be as detailed as those of a later date and in some cases there may be correspondence queries of postmasters for more complete information. As well as...

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A microfilm copy of Record Group 28 of the National Archives containing records of appointments of postmasters by the U. S. Postal Service. The records include a roughly alphabetical list of post offices throughout the country, the names of postmasters for those offices and their dates of first returns.

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Official Postmaster's Account and Record Book for Sandy, WV, 1898-1901. One ledger.

Overview The record of the appointment of postmasters in the following WV counties: Randolph, Ritchie, Roane, Summers, Taylor, Tucker, Tyler, Upshur, Wayne, Webster, Wetzel, Wirt, Wood and Wyoming. The record shows the dates of establishment and discontinuance of post offices, their changes of name, and the names of and the appointment dates of their postmasters. Beginning in 1870, it shows the names of post offices to which mail from discontinued offices was sent. The record also shows the dates of...