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HISTORY OF CENTRE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA
John Blair Linn, 1883
Lemont
"Lemont, a pretty little village, situated at the "end of the mountain," is the largest town in the township. It is built on land owned and cleared by David Whltehill, Esq. After passing through two or three hands it was purchased by Moses Thompson, Esq. In 1870, Mr. Thompson laid out the present village. Among the first buildings erected were the store and dwelling-house of J. H. Hahn, now owned by Thompson & Co., the elegant residences of J. I. Thompson and Dr. J. Y. Dale, the former built of stone. The Presbyterian Church, a building of the Gothic style of architecture, is one of the handsomest church edifices in the county. The cost, including furniture, was about fourteen thousand dollars. Lemont, or, as our fathers called it, " the end of the mountain," was an important point in the early days of the country, being on the trail leading from the settlements on the West Branch and Bald Eagle to those in Penn's valley, and being at the junction of the two valleys. The village contains a church, school-house, drug-store, dry-goods store, tin-shop, blacksmith-shop, etc. It is on the line of the Lewisburg and Tyrone Railroad, and will be the terminus of a proposed railroad from Bellefonte. They have recently organized a brass band, which, though very young, promises to be one of the best in the county.
A Grand Army post, designated as Post No. 171, was organized at Lemont on the 27th of November, 1880, by Commander George F. Harris, of Gregg Post, No. 95. The first officers of the post were as follows: P. C., Theodore 5. Christ; S. V. C., Andrew L. Whitehill; J. V. P., Isaac Armstrong; Officer of the Day, George K. Baker; Chaplain, William C. Patterson; Surgeon, Henry A. Sowers ; Officer of Guard, George Xarts; Ordnance-Sergeant, Anthony Knopf."
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