 The post office was discontinued on November 15, 1831, but re-established on April 6, 1832.The town was incorporated on March 12, 1845, and the corporation limits expanded in 1873.As of 1875, the community contained three churches, one bank, five dry goods stores, three grocery stores, two drug stores, one hotel, two harness shops, one hardware store, one stove store, two boot and shoe stores, two blacksmith shops, a carriage manufacturing company, one wagon shop, four physicians, and one flour mill.