Guardian 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
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, United States. Guardian is located along the
Right Fork Holly River and
West Virginia Route 15, north-northwest of
Webster Springs.
History
Guardian had 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 ...
, which closed on February 1, 1988. The community took its name from the local Guardian Coal and Oil Company.
Guardian was previously known as Removal from the 1880s until 1937 when the post office named changed to Guardian. Guardian was also referred to as Middleport in early postal records. The history of the town is exhaustively set out in a two volume book set ''Removal Reflections: A History of Guardian/Removal, West Virginia'', published in 2002 and 2015.
References
Unincorporated communities in Webster County, West Virginia
Unincorporated communities in West Virginia
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