MOUNT CARMEL, a post-village, capital of Wabash county, Illinois, on the Wabash river, opposite the mouth of White river, 160 miles S. E. of Springfield. It has a beautiful situation and advantages for manufacturing, with a dam across the river, a mile above the village, producing inexhaustible water-power. The place is remarkably healthy, having entirely escaped the cholera when it prevailed in the vicinity. A newspaper is published here. Population in 1853, 1500. (Baldwin's New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States..., 1854)
MOUNT CARROLL, A thriving post village, the capital of Carroll county, on Carroll creek, 210 miles north from Springfield. The creek furnishes good water power, on which is built a large flouring mill, and other manufacturing establishments. There is also here a fine seminary, under competent management, from which are sent out yearly numbers of young men and women as teachers for the schools of the west. Two newspaper offices, one Free Mason lodge, one lodge of Odd Fellows, and an encampment belonging to the same order. Geo. W. Harris, Postmaster. (Hawes' Illinois State Gazetteer...,1859)