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1915 mail routes in Clark County
As I transcribed the 1915 plat map for the Town of Beaver (map posted on the Beaver Township page), I came upon something that may answer a question I had previously posed. If I had the whole county map to look at I might be able to tell for sure, but it looks as if that 1915 plat map shows the mail routes of the time. A darkened section of road comes into Beaver from the south on what is now Park Lane Avenue. When it reaches Maple Center Road it turns east until it reaches Robin Avenue. On Robin it goes north to Lovers Road and proceeds east. From Lovers it turns north on Oak Grove to County Trunk K. There it turns east and follows K and then Starks Road west straight ahead to Curly Creek Ave. At Mill Road the route turns west again until Cardinal Avenue where it goes south to 153 Road where it turns west again and leaves the township. I can see two places along this darkened line inscribed "Greenwood No 3". So this must be the "Greenwood RR # 3" that I see in old addresses for our part of the Town of Beaver. Did people whose property was not adjacent to this route have mailboxes along this loop? Does anyone have a similar plat map of a later date that might show when most of the Town of Beaver started to be served by the Loyal post office rural routes? (This 1915 map shows the Loyal route coming into the southeast corner of the Town of Beaver, and an Owen route coming into the north part of the township.) These mail routes explain why obituaries of people of this area of the Town of Beaver who died in the early 1900's are said to be "of Greenwood" when I expected them to be considered residents of the Loyal area. Helen Vater Blaha |
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