Maynard is an

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located in western Colerain Township,

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, along Wheeling Creek. It has a

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with the ZIP code 43937. Maynard is part of the Wheeling, WV-OH

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. The community is near Wheeling Township and its sister community of Blainesville. Maynard is a part of the St. Clairsville-Richland City School District.

Name origin

Maynard was named for Postmaster General

Horace Maynard Horace Maynard (August 30, 1814 – May 3, 1882) was an American educator, attorney, politician and diplomat active primarily in the second half of the 19th century. Initially elected to the House of Representatives from Tennessee's 2nd Cong ...

, who would serve under President Rutherford B. Hayes when the community would apply for its post office in 1880. While serving as a Representative from Tennessee, Maynard had visited the county seat St. Clairsville stumping on behalf of President

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and his policies while on the

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campaign nearly fifteen years before the Post Office's naming. Until its postal application, the rail stop was called Henderson's Station after the Henderson family. Undoubtedly, Maynard would have been named Henderson if the name had not already been in use. A short-lived mail stop on the St. Clairsville-Cadiz Pike (today State Route 9) in

near the border with Harrison County was named Henderson in 1877 after its postmaster. Stockdale was proposed as a name for the community, but upon the recent news of Horace Maynard's appointment to President Hayes' cabinet, the current name was selected.

History

The Maynard area saw initial development as Henderson's Station as a stop on the Cleveland, Tuscarawas Valley & Wheeling Railway. Purchased by the Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling Railway in 1875, the line was still frequently referred to as the Tuscarawas Valley (T.V.) line. Maynard saw substantial growth as coal works were mined, commencing around the time its post office was established through the 1920s. Railroad executive and coal mine owner Selah Chamberlain purchased land and developed a grouping of 77 company houses on a hill above Maynard, which would be called New Pittsburgh in 1883. In 1916, statistics show Maynard to have 1,588 adults and 259 children members at St. Stanislaus Catholic Church alone.

Notable person

Robert H. Allison Robert H. Allison (July 25, 1893 – December 31, 1959) was an American politician and lawyer. Allison was born in Maynard, Ohio. He lost an arm in a mining accident. Allison went to Blackburn College, Washington University in St. Louis, and Ill ...

, Illinois state legislator and lawyer

References

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