Patna

In the Allegheny highlands, long parallel ridges divide the country around Monterey into a series of mountain valleys. The Monacan and Shawnee hunted in these hills before European settlers entered the region around 1745. German families moved into the northern valleys, while Scots-Irish settlers found land farther south. By the late eighteenth century a few cabins stood at the place known as Bell's Place, in the valley that would later take the name Monterey.