July 4, 1793
Mount Carmel Is Laid Out With a Site for a Courthouse
Leonard Deakins and a man identified in the historical account as Hogmire laid out Mount Carmel near the German Settlement. They marked a public square with four inscribed stones and reserved a site for a courthouse—an early sign that residents expected a new county to be created from northeastern Monongalia County.
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Samuel T. Wiley, History of Preston County, West Virginia (1882), pp. 46–47
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