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o m 06 E0C Uoooh‘ £2m 0 F. Nok f . â€" | _ [ f1,5,f Waterford Times, Thursday, March 26, 1970 Page 3 . buok F I c | ' a located across the road from factory on the west side of family are living in Waterford, I HJE& B'OOIIISblIl' g 0"|I er v II Vel' P aII'IS the old schoolhouse. Previous the road. and J suppose more than ten * . . _ _ to these two schools a frame In recent years Scotty generations of Collvers and. By Ruth Y. oung cI!urch on the old 24 decc_iratlon. the church is a schoolhouse built in 1831 Robb and his ‘besautiful Culvers have lived in ~the Highway. He was well known typically _ 18th _ century was located on the corner of woodcarving of gunstocks ‘Townsend area since John . : _ throughout the county as building. It is possible that the farm now owned by Mr. and _ other _ ornamental Coliver and his family first ] The village of Bloomsburg, "Billy Kitchen" during the with the assistance of @ Fred Lee. Parents of the woodwork has brought quite ‘came to claim the 600 acres â€" R formerly known as Culver second quartee of the Builder‘s Guide, the men students were assessed, not a few visitors to the village. of land promised by Colonel Plains was named m.the early century. He quickly responsible for the design and only in pounds sterling but H.M. Elliott and Sons Farm John Graves Simcoe. part of th.e f mne}eenth accumulated land and at one construction of the Chl-Il:Ch each was expected to supp]y Equipment is also a century by William Kitchen. time owned 1000 acres. Early were able to recreate a tried one quarter of a cord of prosperous business located ? The carly . history of in life he joined the Boston and tested design, which in wood, cut to fit the stove, on the highway at the south Mrs. George Coliver, . Bloomsburg is very closely Baptist Church and when 1850, suited both â€" the before the first of February, end. While there are many Curator of the Tweesmuir associated with the pioneer Bloomsburg Church was practical and spiritual needs for each scholar subscribed. homes with histories going History for the Lynville . ; efforts of the two families organized, donated the land of _ the _ Bloomsburg Mrs. L. Vince who collected back more than a hundred Women‘s Institute, supplied 1 namely Culver, sometimes for church and cemetery Congregation*. the history of the Norfolk years, in the area, there ate some of the details in the t spelled Collver and _ the purposes. Alithough the church has County â€" Schools, supplies also an increasing number of family history and other Kitchen family history. Both _ John Collver, married son had some slight alteration many more details of the attractive modern homes. assistance. Mrs. â€" Elmer stories are filled with courage of Jabez Collver arrived in through the years it still early days, (available at the ‘ Meanwhile the seventh Kitchen of Waterford was ‘ and adventure. Norfolk in February 1794. retains the simple exterior Waterford Public Library.) _ generation of the Kitchen also very helpful. | He had left New Jersey early design with the bell tower Early pictures show the , ~ William Kitchen came to in 1793 and spent some time projecting from the face of roag travelling east of the ‘ [AtWâ€"iâ€"\â€"tAtâ€"trerttfeftstftofte(tâ€"dereefttâ€"=Ceie<eâ€"fe=0 Norfolk in 1810 with his along the banks of the Grand the church. One interesting present Highway with the | ( father and settled in the River. He had to chop his feature was the choir balcony pJacksmith shop owned by & I . Bloomsburg area at the age of way through brush and forest which used to be located in john Russling and the wagon f ; eleven. _ In _ 1814 _ he to become one of the first the front part of the building works upstairs owned by f ‘ substituted for his father settlers in Townsend. He over the entrance, but which Wwalter Smith. There was also . . when he was called to serve in stopped for the night by a would be to the rear of the 2 carding mill on the west the armed forces in the war spring located east of the congregation in the interiof sige of the Highway run by > of that period. At the close of present Collverâ€"Culver cairn of the church. Mrs. Sma.le's water power supplied by | the war he was pensioned and on what is now known as old summary with its detailed gamming of the creek and , + given land in the Rond Eau. 24 Highway. He pitched his survey of. both the exterior providing a mill pond. Earl & t * He married Lavina Heath and tent and made beds of pine and interior design of the Smith a Bloomsburg residents | > after fulfilling his settling boughs for his wife Miriam church is an excellent remembers some of thes © duties _ returned _ to and young son two years of complement to its history. It things as the wagon makerf§ j Bloomsburg and purchased age named Michael. It was is included in the history of was his grandfather. a¢ ; 200 acres adjoining his necessary to keep afire going the . Bloomsburg _ Baptist hi + : father‘s land. He founded the all night to ward off wolves Church being compiled by . [p, little bridge made of i . | village and named it after his and wild animals. He built a Mrs. Tom Freeman. quarried _ stone _ with _ a [ j ~ Pennsylvania birthplace. He log cabin and cultivated the _ ‘Thered brickschoolhouse, keystone â€" arch is â€" still L * built and kept hotel for many ground, grew their own food jocated on the north part of preserved, although in need { = ' years,. This building has and tapped the maple trees to Lo: 5, Con. 12 was built in of repairs to the foundation. ' recently been torn down and obtain syrup and maplesugar 1g66 It â€" served the It is located east of the . 4 yas located_ _ south of the which was the only sweether community until formation highway. It was saved by the â€" M"fl available. _ of the Townsend Township intervention of Guy Marston + * The earliest records of the School Area No. 1 came into when the highway was first &E‘ Baptist _ Church __ in effect in 1951. The new area put through in the 1920‘s and , { . gi-.ozmel:’;lgd reliz:lte :em;:; school _ was â€" built _ and he wa;. County Ensinqi\" . T i P U i ms f ; ‘ ~ _ schoolhouse situated near the completed '_'-,;_5-,:5-_-5 " also ha Chi’. 20 > home of Mrs. W.O. Cooper, J**=~tâ€"tâ€"tâ€"t tmb S pst E04 prai Prekp Ec Ak oÂ¥ EArECEOT Pn( Gang goet Pnd poud past JLot 6 Concession 11, as early . . tas 1827. In the beginning it © . was considered a branch of * * 'rthe Boston Church. Elder * [George Ryerse was the first,} j * [ minister of the congregatiog | and served over a period o 1 ‘ twentyâ€"eight _ years _ untif { > 1856. He had been ordaine I June _ 6, 1829. y : Architectural appraisal of the1 . | church was conducted by . . Catherine Smale, M.R.A.L.C. ‘ | in 1967. She reports that the;l‘ ( **Bloomsburg Regular Baptist:| f Church" built in 1850 and;[ | situated at the North end of / | l\ t the Village of Bloomsburg . ‘ . atanade as a trihnute toa the men â€" ' â€"