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[8] [9] As the population of the Blue Mounds Township grew, so too did the need for a new post office. In 1861, the first post office in Mount Horeb was established in the home of English immigrant and Methodist Episcopal lay minister George Wright. As the new postmaster, Wright selected the name Mount Horeb for the settlement.
It was the first business in the area, and served the rural community with food, hardware, clothes, and a post office for years. But in 1881 the railroad built a depot southwest of the Corners. In response, the Burrows store was moved, along with most of the other businesses, closer to the depot, to the site now occupied by the Hoff store.
Moses with Tablets of the Ten Commandments, painting by Rembrandt, 1659. Mount Horeb (/ ˈ h ɔːr ɛ b /; Hebrew: הַר חֹרֵב Har Ḥōrēḇ; Greek in the Septuagint: Χωρήβ, Chōrēb; Latin in the Vulgate: Horeb) is the mountain at which the Ten Commandments were given to Moses by God, according to the Book of Deuteronomy in the Hebrew Bible.
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Post offices were consolidated between 1900 and 1904 and rural route deliveries out of Blanchardville, New Glarus, Daleyville, and Mount Horeb then began to serve most York residents. [ 10 ] The main industry for all the settlers was wheat farming until chinch bugs, overused soil, and lowered prices caused its profitability to drop ...
In the same year Herman, his father and Tom Lingard incorporated the State Bank of Mt. Horeb. In 1898 Herman was elected as a Republican to the U.S. House of Representatives, and served two terms. Meanwhile, Herman served as postmaster, was prominent in Mount Horeb's Lutheran church, and developed some creamery businesses.
The incident sent the middle school and four other Mount Horeb Area School District schools into lockdown late Wednesday morning, affecting 2,500 children.
MOUNT HOREB, Wis. (AP) — A student who was killed by police outside a Wisconsin school pointed a pellet rifle at officers and had refused to drop the weapon, authorities said Saturday.. The ...