County-seat plumbing dating to an 1830 founding
Lebanon was established in 1830 and became Boone County seat in 1832 after founders James Drake and George Kinnard donated land, lots, and building materials to win the designation. The neighborhoods that grew up around the courthouse square — rebuilt in its current Classical Revival form between 1909 and 1911 — include some of the oldest continuously occupied plumbing in the Carmel area, often updated piecemeal rather than in one full repipe.
Reading a home's age before quoting the job
Because Lebanon's residential growth spans nearly two centuries around that courthouse core, a water-heater or fixture call here benefits from knowing roughly when a given block was built — a house from the courthouse's early-1900s rebuild era needs a very different diagnostic approach than one in a newer subdivision at the town's edge.