One of the oldest houses of the town, is the two story brick standing at the southeast corner of this crossing. The oldest house, built by the founder of the town, stands at the northwest corner, and the second house in antiquity, occupied by Mr. MORRIS, stands a short distance from the southeast corner on Ohio street, near the Odd Fellows building. All the streets are lined with good stone sidewalks, and in front of Isaac HILL's store, corner of Ohio and Main, there is a pavement of Berea Sandstone. there was formerly a good brick building northwest corner of Washington and Ohio streets, occupied by JEFFERS BNros., which was burned in 1886. Near this spot thee is a new two story frame building in which the post office is kept. A little farther north is a residence of L. WOLLENWEBER, which he built fifty years ago and has ever since occupied as a residence and a place of business. Nearly opposite this building is the store and shops of THORNBERRY & Sons. Ohio street, the other original street of the town, is closely built up, east of the crossing of Main street, mostly with one and two story frame dwelling houses. There is considerable variety in the styles of the buildings, but very few are modern in their architecture, and they are mostly frame and bright with new paint and contrast strongly with the few weather beaten old wooden buildings to be found here in common with all other towns. The good sidewalks give evidence of thrift and public spirit. Well stocked stores, groceries, a plain but substantial school-house, three churches, several societies, a good mill, several blacksmiths and other tradesmen, make up the industries and social instrumentalities of the village. It is a substantial town, as evinced by the well dressed ladies and gentlemen to be seen on the streets, and the rosy children wending their way to school loaded with the too numerous books, tablets, slates, etc., required by the modern methods in these institutions. The town presents no marks of great antiquity, and there are living within its limits several persons whose birth antedates its beginning by several years. Citizen BEALL, the founder of the town, was born on Wheeling Creek, now West Virginia, and removed to Ohio, settling first on Captina creek. By a mistake at the land office in Marietta, the land he entered and on which he made a payment, was subsequently entered by another person who paid in full. BEALL relinquished his claim and entered the land, a part of section 6, township 5, and range 5, on which he laid out the town of Beallsville, in July 1825. The first settlement in the twp is said to have been made in 1813, though I am informed there is in the churchyard at the Baptist chruch, half a mile south of town, a grave marked by a stone the inscription on wihich states that the deceased, named BARRETT, died in 1811. It is difficult to fix the exact date of the arrival of BEALL on the scene but it was about 1820. Certain it is, that but little improvement had been made in the neighborhood. the site of the town was surrounded by the primeval forests, and where it was to stand, dead trees and stumps cumbered the ground. Nicholas KING was the surveyor who laid out the streets and alleys, and fixed the boundaries of the building lots. the east part of Washington Street was the alley that bounded the town on the west. The crossing of Main and Ohio streets was made the center of the village, and building lots were surveyed along the streets from that point. Citizen BEALL had built a part of the house on the northwest corner of Main and Ohio streets, now owned by Henry BROWN. Here was born, his daughter, Mary A. BEALL, the first child born in the place. She grew to woamnhood, and married a Mr. BEABOUT, but has been for some years dead. Shortly after the town was platted, an auction for the sale of lots was had. At this sale Richard TRUEX bought the lots now occupied by the school house, and Stillwell MELLOT the lot now occupied by Wm. MORRIS' residence. These lots were both built on about the same time, and (except the house built by BEALL before the town was founded) the house of Mr. MORRIS, on Ohio street, is the oldest building now standing in the place. At the same slae, or shortly after, Henry NEFF bought the lot on the south-east corner of Ohio and Washington streets, now owned by J. B. HILL. Judge John LYNN bought the lot where Isaac HILL's store stands. There seems to be a difference of opinion as to who started the first store. LYNN started a store where Isaac HILL is and BEALL kept the post office and run a store whree Henry BROWN lives, shortly after the founding of the village. It is likely BEALLpreceeded LYNN in the mercantile business by some years. Jasper MALLORY bought the lot on the south-east corner of Ohio and Main streets, and in 1834 built the two-story brick building still standing, the lower corner room of which is now occupied as a harness shop. The first hotel was kept in the BEALL property, and it seems to have numbered liquid refreshments among its attractions. This hostlery was run by Warren THORNBERRY in 1832. In 1832 John LYNN laid out what is know as LYNN's addition. The alley that formed the west boundary of the original town, on the section line, was widened into Washington Street and that portion of the town west of this street was added to the village. In the same year the Presbyterians built a small brick church on the gound now occupied by the present one. The same year Samuel SIMERAL established a blacksmith shop near the west end of Ohio street on the lot owned by Nellie OWENS. W.S. WILSON settled near thetown in 1830 and opened the first tailor shop in the place. He built the shop still standing on North Main Street. he remained here all his life dying in 1871. His widow, 83 years of age still lives here on West Ohio street. Citizen BEALL spent his life here dying in 1863, and four of his daughters are still residents of the village. Their names are Mrs. HUDSON, Mrs. Rev. DARBY, Mrs. BLACK, & Mrs. MILLER. In 1836 Dr. Louis GRATIGNY, a native of France, who had married a Massachusetts lady settled in the town. He had studied medicine with JUDKINS & HAMILTON at Mt. Pleasant, Ohio. He spent his life here practicing medicine, dying in 1873 at 73 years of age. His sons still live in or near the village. Shortly after Dr. GRATIGNY took up his residence here he established a tannery in the south part of town. there seems to have been three tanneries started here about the same time. J. COE was proprietor of the second, and Alexander HUTCHINSON of the third one. HUTCHINSON's tanyard seems to have been in operation till some time after 1840, but all three of them have been so long out of use that they are almost forgotten. At a somewhat earlier day Warren THORNBERRY built a horse mill in the south part of town. Motion was communicated to the buhrs and other machinery by horses hitched to a sweep or lever. the building was a log concern with a great spread of clap-board roof. It was afterwards used as a tobacco house but has disappeared. This crude concern ground wheat and bloted the flour in good style for the times, but it is not likely their best producet was equal to the roller flour of today. In 1852 the town was incorporated and Isaac WELSH was elected its first mayor. Isaac WELSH was State Treasurer from 1872-1876, dying in office November 29th of the latter year. In 1865 HUDSON's addition was platted. This is an extension of Ohio street toward the east and reaches over the summit of the swell on the west slope of which the greater part of the town stands. Much of this addition has been built up with comfortable residences. DANIELS' addition was made in 1880, and is on the north part of the town, near the railroad east of the depot. Several good dwellings have been added to the town in this addition. When the Railroad was built Beallsville did its full share in bearing the burden of the cost of that improvement, and has reaped its reward. Instead of bing compelled to go to the B & O Railroad (my personal note: B & O Railroad was the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad) or to the river for freights, it has become a considerable shipping point and its facilities attract trade to the town. Produce is bought at prices very close to those offered in the leading markets, and goods are sold at a narrow margin. Though profits of trade are small, the increades volume of business compensates many times over for the cut in prices. The staple products of the surrounding country are corn, wheat, tobacco and wool, but like all this hill contry, poultry, eggs and butter attract a share of attention, and annually bring in no inconsiderable sum of money. Fancy poultry is bred by many fanciers near town, and eggs and fowls of fancy breeds are shipped to all parts of the United States, while in a few cases they have been shipped half around the world. The tobacco of the neighborhood is of a good quality, and though it is but a meager price this year, the money it brings adds much to the circulating medium of the town. There is in the town quite a collection of old citizens, who are not only old in years, but have been for long years residents of the place. The oldes of these is probalby Mrs. MORRIS, mother of Mrs. JAMES, who keeps the Eagle Hotel. Mrs. WILSON, widow of W. S. WILSON, has already been mentioned. Mr. John W. BLACK, and Mr. W. MORRIS, who have lived here half a century, and Mr. Aaron EVANS, brother of Judge EVANS, of Zanesville, who has been here nearly as long. Matthew STEWART, who though only a resident of the town for a few years, has lived near it for fifty-six years. Mr. Philip KING, the owner of the mill, who was on the gound when the original town was surveyed, and helped build the first Presbyterian church, has lived all the seventy-three years of his life near the place, but has only recently lived in it. Mr. Yearsly THORNBERRY, 82 years old, has lived near the town from early boyhood, and in it for 19 years. Mr. John WILLIAMS, to whom I am indebted, with others, for valuable information, has probably had the longest continuous residence in town. He came here in the spring of 1836, and has ever since been a resident of the place. Mr. WOLLENWEBER came here fifty years ago, and bought two town lots on the west side of Washington street for forty dollars. When these lots wre purchased the stumps of trees were still on them. It was only a short distance to the undisturbed forest. The town contained only sixteen or eighteen huses, and the roads that led through it wound among the trees and was confined to very narrow limits after passing out of the town. The inhabitants were soothed to sleep at night by hooting of owls and the barking of foxes, or the howling of an occasional wolf in the forests, that environed the village. The Methodist church was then in cours of construction. The year vefore his arrival a camp meeting had been held in the suburbs, and that same year the camp meeting was repeated. Mr. WOOLENWEBER had visited the town in 1833, and had returned to make it his residence. On the two lots purchased he built half a century ago, the house he still occupies. Here he did a tailoring business for 25 years , with him J. THORNBERRY learned his trade, many years ago. After 25 years in the tailor trade he embarked in the grocery and saloon business, which he followed bor another quarter of a century. Recently he became disgusted, quit the business, and reposes in the shade of his own roof tree enjoying the quiet so grateful to men in the vening of their days. Mr. WOOLENWEBER is 65 years of age,and a native of Germany. Part #3 to follow