This is the oldest village in the county, and was one of the leading places for this whole region of country. People came here for legal advice, they came here for medical advice and to do their trading; and they came here for fashions, they came here for military parades, for political discussions, and for general consultations of a public nature: they came here to engage in all the amusements and duties of a public character. But the old place has sadly deteriorated. The large dry goods stores of the ancient days have dwindled and the mechanics shops have grown small and beautifully less, until at the present time, there are four churches, an Academy, a hotel, three stores, two blacksmith shops, two wagon shops, two shoe shops, a harness shop, a milliner's shop, a jeweler, three clergymen, an old physician and a young one and about fifty dwellings. The village was originally laid out handsomely with broad streets and ample squares, but the streets are nothing extra, the sidewalks merely passable, and the shade tree, taken as a whole, abominable.