69 small tr?£s: the houses were yet to be built. From High St. they followed a foot path around the bushes and saplings to the next square. Here the enthusiastic proprietor pointed out the Court House Square, and where the court house would be built. This square was like the former, except some bushes cut and corner stakes driven. Across this square ran Broadway. This was partly cleared. On this street Peter Cribbs and George Leininger had stuck their stakes. The former had erected his cabin and potterkiln near the southeast corner of the square, ana the latter had built his house on the corner opposite the old Gray House. Christ Stoutt had built a house on Water Street near the site of the old saw mill: and Henry Laffer lived in a frame house near where the Lion Hotel stood in 1866. Of these four families the town of New Philadelphia consisted in 1800. All else was fenceless and houseless as the untrodden wilderness. Organization of the County.—The tirst county established under the Territorial Government of the Northwest was Washington. It was created. July 27. 1788. by proclamation of Gov. St. Clair, and embraced within its
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