December 10, 1819, Allen Woods appeared before Henry Chapman, a Justice of the Peace in and for Brown County, and acknowledged a plat of Georgetown, containing twenty-two lots and two outlots, including nine acres and forty-two poles, located on a part of Robert Lawson's Survey, No. 523, and described as follows on the record: "The land contained in the above plat begins at a post near a white oak; thence west sixty-five poles to a walnut post; thence north twenty-two poles and eight-tenths to a walnut post; thence east sixty-five poles to a walnut stake, near a branch; thence south twenty-two poles and eight-tenths to the place of beginning." Main Street, running north and south, was three poles wide and twenty-two and eight-tenths long; Apple Street, same length, two poles wide; North Street, one and eight-tenths poles wide; twelve long; Main Alley, one pole wide and eight long.

Albert Woods, a native of Ireland, came to America when small, and located in the State of Pennsylvania. Upon arriving at maturity, he was married in that State, and removed to Georgetown, Ky., where he resided several years. Soon after Ohio was admitted into the Union, he came to it and located on the site of Georgetown; this was probably in 1803 or 1804. His son, Albert Woods, Jr., now a retired physician of ClermontCounty, was born here in October, 1805, and a daughter, now the wife of Peter L. Wilson, Esq., was born on the old place in 1808. In the latter year, Mr. Woods purchased 200 acres of land of Daniel Feagins and it was upon a portion of this purchase that he laid out the original town in 1819, probably naming it from his former residence, Georgetown, Ky. His son, James Woods, who laid out an addition to the town in 1820, settled here with his father, and there were several other children.

When Peter L. Wilson came to Georgetown, in the winter of 1821-22, there was not a finished building in the place. Two or three brick houses were up, but their gable ends were open, and a frame house stood where the city bakery now is, having in it timber enough for two ordinary structures. There were then but five or six houses in the town in the aggregate. A frame building stood opposite the northeast corner of the court house square, where McKibben now is, but it was never finished. The boys were accustomed to playing ball against its walls. It was intended for a two-story edifice, but was finally demolished. Very few people had their homes in Georgetown at that day. Others were coming and going, but the attractions of the place were not yet sufficient to induce new-comers to locate. James Woods lived in a small log cabin on Outlot 21, in the northwest part of town. Allen Woods lived at that time in a log house which stood near the northwest corner of Main and Main Cross Streets, a little in the rear of the brick building which e put up on the corner, and which constitutes a part of the old American Hotel. Mr. Wilson subsequently removed the log building. William **** was living here at the same time, in a small, unfinished frame house where the Methodist Episcopal Church now stands. He published the first newspaper in the place, and held several responsible offices--Sheriff, Auditor, etc.