The first post office to serve the people of Upper Paint Creek was Boyd. This post office was located just over the line separating Raleigh and Fayette counties on the Fayette side near where Needmore was. It was in Henry Woolwine's store. For many years I wondered why they gave it the name of Boyd. Finally I got the story from C. P. Maynor who said he got it from Will Humphrey who lived at the mouth of Boyd's Branch. In the early years of the settlement of the country, there came a Mr. Boyd. he obtained land at the lower end of the stream now known as Boyd’s Branch and proceeded to erect two log buildings; one for his home and the other for a store. He became the first merchant on Upper Paint Creek. The supplies for his store were shipped to him by steamboat and he hauled them by wagon from Pratt on the Kanawha River. After he had been in business a while, he went to Pratt for a load of goods. On his return home one of his horses became lame and it looked like he was not going to make it back home that day. He saw a good looking horse in a field he was passing, he took his lame horse out of the harness, caught the horse in the field, hitched him to his wagon, and came in home without further trouble but Mr. Boyd was not as lucky as he thought he was. A few days later the sheriff served him with a warrant charging him with horse stealing. He was taken to Richmond, Virginia, there he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to one year in the Virginia State Prison. Before his term in prison was over, he died. He never knew that a small stream and a post office were named for him.

Several years after Mr. Boyd's departure, Mr. Henry Woolwine came from St. Albans and purchased the land formerly owned by Boyd. He erected a two-story frame building. The first story was a store and the upper floor was his living quarters. He applied for a post office and on August 20r 1881, the Boyd post office came into existence with Mr. Woolwine as postmaster. The Boyd post office served the people of Upper Paint Creek until March 8, 1887. At this time Cirtsville had become the center of activity in the area and a post office was granted to Amos P. Williams. The Boyd post office was discontinued. The time of tenure of the Boyd post office was from June 14, 1886 to May 6, 1932.

Up on Maple Fork, Henry Davis had a large country store. He made an application for a post office and on June 6, 1902, the Nesco post office came into existence with Mr. Davis as postmaster. At first the mail for this office was brought in from Mount Hope but after the completion of the Virginian Railroad, the Nesco mail came to the Cirtsville post office and was carried by horse to the Nesco office. Hen Feazell carried that mail. The Nesco office was discontinued November 30, 1926, when Rural Route 1 from Mount Hope was established.

Wilson Sweeney put a store at what is now Sweeneyburg. His application for a post office was granted and the Oley post office came into existence on September 20, 1889. It continued under the name of Oley until September 6, 1906, when the name was changed to Sweeneyburg. Wilson Sweeney was postmaster of Oley post office. Mrs. Mollie Couch Sweeney, wife of John Sweeney, was post master after the name was changed to Sweeneyburg. The Sweeneyburg post office was discontinued March 13, 1913.

When John H. Maynor built the large three-story building at the mouth of Sand Branch and put in his store, he made application for a post office. His application was granted. I don't know the exact date this post office started but it was probably 1912. John H. Maynor was post master of this office until his death in 1922. Then his son, Ira J. Maynor, took over the store and was postmaster until May 13, 1932, when the post office was moved to Spangler's store and Inez Spangler became postmaster. The Maynor post office was discontinued June 3, 1954.