 The beginning of the end for Mount Gilead came in 1889 with the closing of Coes Mill.The post office was closed in 1905 and the school in 1918.With the coming of Prohibition in 1921, the last of Mount Gilead's industries literally dried up and, by 1930, the county stopped maintaining the road from Mount Gilead to North Fork, thus placing the village at the end of a dead end road.