Editing St. Clairsville, Ohio (section)

==History==
The seat of justice of Belmont County was originally known as Newellstown, and under the latter name was laid out in the late 1790s by David Newell.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/centennialhistor00mcke | title=Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens | publisher=Biographical Publishing Company | author=McKelvey, A. T. | year=1903 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/centennialhistor00mcke/page/241 241]}}</ref>  The name of the settlement was soon changed to St. Clairsville in honor of Northwest Territory Governor and Revolutionary War Major-General [[Arthur St. Clair]].<ref>[http://www.appalachianohio.com/main/histories.aspx?CoID=31 Appalachian Ohio: County History<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060129115051/http://www.appalachianohio.com/main/histories.aspx?CoID=31 |date=2006-01-29 }}</ref>

In 1833, St. Clairsville contained a brick courthouse and jail, five houses of worship, seventeen or eighteen mercantile stores, several groceries, a drug store, a book store, five taverns, three printing offices, four or five physicians, and fourteen or fifteen lawyers, and a large number of mechanics' shops.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_dt48AAAAYAAJ | title=The Ohio Gazetteer, or, a Topographical Dictionary | publisher=Scott and Wright | year=1833 | access-date=12 December 2013 | author=Kilbourn, John | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_dt48AAAAYAAJ/page/n464 428]}}</ref> [[Charles Kuralt]]'s "On the Road" segment of  ''[[CBS Evening News]]'' drove through St. Clairsville for a TV segment in the 1960s.