[Hosea Stout Diary] Monday June the 1st 1846. It rained and blew very hard till noon and then ceased. My family came in the evening.They camped last night on a hill in the prairie and had a very disagreeable time of it.I went to the North of this place to hunt a location with Chandler Rogers and came back and went East with Hunter and there found one to suit me
It was in a beautiful grove of small hickory and formed a pleasant shade and was a delightful place. Here Hunter and myself intended to build & put in a crop such as would come to maturity at this late time of planting.
This place was called Mount Pisgah and the main settlement was situated on a long ridge running North & South. To the west was a large deep valley or bottom land of good prairie and was now being plowed & planted while all the adjoining glades and groves were teeming with men & cattle engaged in the busy hum of improving and planting[.] The whole woods & prairie seemed alive to business & a continual streem of emegration pouring in which looked like the entire country would be inhabited as a city in a short time
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
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