Dyer, originally Haynes, is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
Webster County,
West Virginia
West Virginia is a mountainous U.S. state, state in the Southern United States, Southern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.The United States Census Bureau, Census Bureau and the Association of American ...
, United States. Dyer is located on the
Williams River and County Route 46, east-southeast of
Cowen.
The village of Haynes received a
post office
A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letter (message), letters and parcel (package), parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post o ...
in 1893. In 1911, the name was changed to "Dyer" after George M. Dyer,
postmaster
A postmaster is the head of an individual post office, responsible for all postal activities in a specific post office. When a postmaster is responsible for an entire mail distribution organization (usually sponsored by a national government), ...
from 1893 to 1923. The post office was discontinued in 1938, and the mail redirected to Cowen.
[United States Post Office Department, ''Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832–1971'', NARA Microfilm Publication M841, vol. 79 ( 1930–1971), West Virginia, Webster County, p. 15.]
References
Unincorporated communities in Webster County, West Virginia
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