 Seligman originally developed from a small trading post that built up around or near the homestead of Andrew, George, John, Joshua and Jacob Roller from Scott County, Virginia, some of the first permanent European settlers to arrive in the area in the 1830s.At that time the region was a rough-hewn wilderness covered with large timber.In May 1841, the county court approved construction of the first road through the territory, known today as Old Wire Road.