Mount Gilead, Ohio
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Mount Gilead is the county seat of Morrow County, Ohio. Jacob Young surveyed the town in 1824. Before becoming known as Mount Gilead in 1832, the community was known first as Whetsom and then Youngstown. The Ohio legislature supposedly named the town Mount Gilead after the biblical town of the same name.
Mount Gilead grew slowly, having approximately four hundred inhabitants in 1847. At this point in time, Mount Gilead was part of Marion County. The town became the Morrow County seat in 1848, with the creation of that county. Many of the community [[Category:{$topic}]]