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NW Mailing List wrote:

>  From an N&W perspective, Hallsville, always was Davy, WV, even though 

> the community was known as Hallsville when the N&W layed track through 

> the area around 1892. 

>  

> Hallsville was named after Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hall who moved there in 

> 1873.  A post office was established as Hallsville on July 23, 1891.  

> When the N&W came through in 1892, the rr named the station Davy after 

> Davy Creek. The community changed the name to Davy in 1901, but the post 

> office name was not chnaged from Hallsville to Davy until Oct 1, 1911 

> after another po with the name of Davy in WV closed.

>  

> The N&W, coal operators, and local communities often had conflicting 

> names for a place.  Sometimes the N&W would name a place and then a coal 

> operator would come along and name the place something else.  The rr was 

> iinterested in having a location identifier, whereas the coal operator 

> was interested in a community name.  The coal operator would establish a 

> name by requesting a post office for the community.  Eventuallt the 

> railroad and the community would come to a common name.

>  

> The attatched is from one of the contract books on the Ohio Extension as 

> the post office extended the mail route from Kyle, WV to Roderfield, WV .

>  

> Belcher was changed to Keystone, Totten became Kimball.  Vivian became 

> East Vivian, Vivian and West Vivian.  When Peerless Coal & Coke started 

> their operation they named the community Clausen, but the N&W put in a 

> station across from the Peerless company store and named the location 

> East Vivian.  Eventuallythe post offcie at the location was named 

> Vivian.  When Tidewater Coal & Coke started up, they named the post 

> office at Vivian, first Helena and then Tidewater, but this area 

> eventually became known as Kimball.  The original rr station at Kimball 

> was in Norwood, which the RR called West Vivian.  This area is directly 

> across Elkhorn Creek from the Houston/Koppers company store (which was 

> located in King).

>  

> Alex Schust  

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