. Landmarks of Niagara County, New York; . ns a frame M. E. church. The Mountain Ridge Cemetery Association was organized June 16,1848, with Alanson T. Odell, president; Philip Freeman, M. W. Bal-dwin, Oliver Brown, James Culver E. Odell, Franklin Knapp, andStephen Green, trustees. The cemetery is located four and one halfmiles southwest of Middleport. Of the early schools in this town there is not much record. The firstone was probably established in or near the Slaton Settlement, wherethe first comers located. There was a school house in district No. 23 asearly as 1818, which was at that tim
. Landmarks of Niagara County, New York; . ns a frame M. E. church. The Mountain Ridge Cemetery Association was organized June 16,1848, with Alanson T. Odell, president; Philip Freeman, M. W. Bal-dwin, Oliver Brown, James Culver E. Odell, Franklin Knapp, andStephen Green, trustees. The cemetery is located four and one halfmiles southwest of Middleport. Of the early schools in this town there is not much record. The firstone was probably established in or near the Slaton Settlement, wherethe first comers located. There was a school house in district No. 23 asearly as 1818, which was at that time the only one south of the Militaryroad. The first teacher there was Margaret Pixley, and Dr. John Mc-Loth taught in the following winter. April 20, 1818, the commissionersof common schools, Allen Williams, Robert H. Henderson, and BenjaminH. Packard, met and divided the town into eight school districts; onMay 16 of the same year this number was increased to nine. As thepopulation increased the town was divided and subdivided into school. J. W. SHAFHK. 279 districts and better school buildings superseded the first ones, whichwere generally of logs. For the past forty years or more there havebeen twenty-four districts, which is the present number, with a schoolhouse in each. With Cambria, Wheatfield, Lockport and Pendletonthe town constitutes the first commissioners district. The first religious services and the first church organization were in-stituted at or near the site of Orangeport. Prayer meetings were heldat first until considerable interest was awakened, when the firstpreacher, Oliver Castle, came to the neighborhood. In June, 1813,Elders Joel Doubleday and Joel Nathaniel Brown came and baptized anumber of persons. In August, 1817, a memorable revival began, andduring that year seventy-three persons were baptized. In the sum-mer of 1818 a frame church was built, but it was not vi holly finisheduntil six years later; it is believed to have been the first house forpublic
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