71 erected in the midst of the wilderness. The present city shows the wisdom of their choice. Location being settled, the town was then surveyed by John Wells, of Somerset County. Pa. On the 23rd of April. 1808, John Knisely donated to the county one hundred lots, chosen at random; one hundred and sixty acres of land and one block each to the German, English and Moravian Societies, for cemetery purposes; and one lot each to the Germans and English, upon which to build school houses. Philip Tra^y was appointed public crier, and he sold ten of these donated lots at public auction for a total of one hundred and twenty-four dollars. Court Houses- — During 1807-8 a house built by George Leininger served for the double purpose of hotel and court-house, the courts being held there until the erection of a courthouse a year or two later. The room in which the court was held might have been said to contain two bars, the tavern bar at one end and the legal bar at the other, and when court was in session business was carried on simultaneously at both. While the log tavern was the place for holding court, a log stable was
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