In 1858 a crossroads appeared on an old Washington County map, complete with a sawmill and six houses, but no name. Granite quarries opened in 1880, drawing workers from Scotland and Canada. A boarding house was built near the quarry. A Post Office was needed, and for that the town required a name: it was called Sodom.
A schoolhouse was built in 1895; until then, classes had been held on the upper floor of a resident's house. By 1896, at least 40 men were employed in six different quarries, and at one time, 50 horses were stabled in the village of Sodom.
Albert Bliss, who refused to receive mail with the unsavory postmark of Sodom, petitioned the Post Office to change its name. In 1905 Sodom was renamed Adamant, chosen for the granite quarries and the hardness of their stone, reportedly "A name perhaps as hard but not as wicked."
