MOUNT CARMEL, p-v., capital of Wabash co, Ill., 166 s. E. Springfield, 714 W. Situated on elevated ground, on the w. side of Illinois r. It contains a court house and jail, of brick, 1 German Reformed and 1 Methodist Episcopal church, 10 stores, 3 steam m., 1 ox tread m., 1 iron foundry, and about 1,200 inhabitants. (Haskell's Complete Descriptive and Statistical Gazetteer of the the United States...,1840)
MOUNT CARMEL A post village, capital of Wabash county, on the Wabash river, opposite the mouth of White river, 160 miles south-east from Springfield. It has a beautiful situation and possesses fine advantages for manufacturing, having a dam across the river about a mile above the village producing an inexhaustible water power. The climate is healthy and its people active and industrious. Population, about 2,000. Wm. Arbothnot, Postmaster. (Hawes' Illinois State Gazetteer...,1859)