The first settlements on Red Bank Creek

were made in

[1801 1802 1803 1805]

By Archibald McKelip, Henry Nulf, Jacob Hetrick, John Shafer, John Mohney, Jacob Miller, the Doverspike family, Moses Kirkpatrick, William Latimer, John Ardery, John Wilkins, John Washy, and Calvin McNutt. Some of the above-named came from Westmoreland County, some from Lehigh County.

"The first child that was born in the county was Mary Guthrie, and the second was Thomas Young.

"The first church that was organized was the Presbyterian.

Its first regular pastor was the Rev. Robert McGarrah.

When he first began to preach I do not know, but it must have been as early as 1804.

He was ordained in the year 1806, at Thomas Brown's, near Reidsburg. the pioneer Presbyterian Churches were Licking and New Rehoboth, both organized by Rev. John McPherrin."The first store was kept where Rimersburg now stands, by a good old man by the name of James Pinks, in 1812. People from a great distance went there to make their purchases.