Quaker Caleb Pancoast established New Lisbon in 1802 to serve travelers along the National Pike and welcomed all religious denominations into his home for use as a meetinghouse. The town, shortened to Lisbon in 1805, thrived, and by 1835 eight daily stagecoaches stopped at the old Stage Coach House, where horses were exchanged and food and lodging were provided. A fare on the stage line from Baltimore to Frederick was $2.00. The Stage Coach House and Pancoast's house are no longer standing, but a two story brick house across the road remained as one of the historic buildings along the Pike, having served over time as the Lisbon Female Seminary, a tollhouse for the Pike, and the home of village blacksmith and wheelwright Richard E. Coursey.