Pioneer Mt. Horeb stood on this spot with houses, churches, stores, a harness shop, undertaker, hotel, and tavern. Early settlers called it “The Corners” because it stood at the intersection of the Old Military Road and a major wagon trail from the east. Scotch Presbyterians erected the first church here in 1848. The area became known as Horeb’s Corners when, in 1867, a post office named Mt. Horeb, after the biblical landmark, was moved to the community from the farmhome of Geo. Wright a mile north. Norwegians, who made up three-fourths of the population by 1875, called the settlement STANGJII, meaning Liberty Pole, for the flag pole erected here during the Civil War years. Railroad engineers, unable to find a suitable site in the pioneer village, built a depot a mile to the west in the heart of present-day Mt. Horeb. In 1881 the “Cannon Ball” arrived, and a dozen or more new businesses sprang up around the new station before merchants from the crossroads, by then called Old Town, began moving to the new site. Today only one house remains of the original settlement.