At the beginning…
Around 1770, the area east of the Monongahela River from present Fairmont was settled by Robert Lowther, Andrew Davisson, Tigel and Arthur Trader, Abraham Sisco, and Nathaniel Springer. William Haymond, Jr. settled on a part of Davisson’s land. Sometime after 1790, Jacob Polsley bought some land on Trader Island. His wife was Margaret Haymond, daughter of William’s.
Haymond, along with Jacob Polsley’s sons, Daniel and John, laid out the town of Palatine in 1838, and was legally formed in 1867. Council members at that time were F. A. Rymer and John H. Bennett, Recorder was N. D. Helmick, and Mayor was C. A. Swearingen. In 1899, Palatine became part of the city of Fairmont.
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