Gibbens describes the appearance of Court Square in those early years: “In the rear subsequently was erected, at the expense of the city, a Market House.
Just back of these buildings, extending along Market Street, was located the market house with its brick pillars and low roof, eves and near the market house stood the whipping post, and the writer of this has pictured in his mind to this day, the appearance of a thief, one Bodine, who was sentenced to be publicly whipped for robbing the clothesline of one of our citizens, L.P.
Bob Enoch is president of the Wood County Historical and Preservation Society.