Forest Lake Township

Forest Lake, Forest Lake, PA 1907

Birchardville, Looking West ca.1906

Churches:
Birchardville (Middletown) Baptist Church located on Rt. 267
Fair Hill Methodist - no building
Forest Lake Baptist Church located on Rt. 3029

*STOCKER'S HISTORY (1887)

First Congregational Church of Christ in Rush, later Middletown and Forest Lake. First organized religious body in the township. Baptists held regular meetings at an earlier period. Disbanded in 1837.

Middletown Baptist Church of Birchardville, organized February 29, 1812. A meetinghouse was built in 1837.

Forest Lake Baptist Church in the hamlet of Forest Lake, constituted May 4, 1842. First meetings were held in the schoolhouse until 1842, when a building was purchased. In 1880 the church was built.

Forest Lake Centre Methodist Episcopal Church was organized ca. 1834. In 1846 a meetinghouse was built and enlarged in 1871.

Fair Hill Methodist Episcopal Church. Methodist classes met in the schoolhouse prior to the building of the church in 1877. It was incorporated in 1879.
Cemeteries:
Birchardville Cemetery, Rt. 267 Birchardville
Brock Cemetery, on Forest Lake Road, private property
Carr Cemetery or Taylor Cemetery, private property
Doty Cemetery, on Fraser Road, private property
Forest Lake Cemetery, also listed as Brown Cemetery (at Forest Lake take Showalter Road, approx 1/4 mi.on right is dirt road and approx. 480 ft. on right is the cemetery.)
Fair Hill Cemetery, from Fairdale on Forest Lake Road, take T602
Kallam Cemetery, private property
Patch Cemetery, 4.9 miles from Fairdale (on right) on the Forest Lake Road
Slatter Hill Cemetery, on Milford-Owego Turnpike. Private property.
Stone Street Cemetery, near Birchardville on T620
Turrell Cemetery, corner Milford-Owego Turnpike and Rt. 267, private property.

Building and Geographic Information According to the 1872 Beers' Atlas of Susquehanna County. To obtain copies of maps e-mail us for details.
BLACK SMITH SHOPS- Town of Birchardville (B. S. & Wag. Sh. - G. B. Strange), Dist. #4; (B.S. & Wag. Sh.), Dist. #5 (J.S.)
CREEKS/BROOKS - Wyalusing Creek, Dist. #1; Dist. #4 (Middle Branch), Dist. #9
GRIST MILL - Town of Forest Lake, Dist. #5; Chapman Dist. (S. & G. Mill)
LAKES - Forest Lake, Dist. #5
SAW MILLS (S.M. or S. MILL) - Dist. #1; Chapman Dist. (S. & G. Mill), (2) Dist. #5 (includes one for R. Booth), Dist. #9
SCHOOLS - Town of Forest Lake, Dist. #1; (2) Chapman Dist.; Dist #2; Dist. #3; Dist. #4; Dist. #5; Dist. #6; Dist. #7; Dist. #8; Dist. #9
STORES - Town of Birchardville & Dist. #4
WAGON SHOPS - Town of Birchardville (B. S. & Wag. Sh. - G. B. Strange) & Dist. #4, (B.S. & W. Sh.)

Others:

Milford - Owego Turnpike, Dist. #1; Dist. #2, Dist. #5, Dist. #8, Friendsville P.O.
Shoe Sh. or S. Sh. - Town of Birchardville & Dist. #4 (D. Marshall)
Stable - Town of Birchardville
Tannery - Dist. #6 (O. & E. Gilfoy)
Turning Mill, Dist. #5

Place Names, Old and New
Forest Lake Township was formed on 4 May 1836. For further information, see also Township Incorporations.

Birchardville, named for Jabez and Jesse Birchard, who came from Connecticut to the middle branch of the Wyalusing Creek in 1799. Birchard owned and worked the land under a Connecticut title (the Connecticut--Pennsylvania dispute over this part of Northeastern Pennsylvania raged for nearly 150 years) and called it "Ruby." Jabez had a small grist mill and distillery as early as 1815 and was the first postmaster, with the post office established in his house in 1826. The post office closed 31 May 1954 (mail routed through Montrose P.O.). Pop. 90 in 1900.

Forest Lake, former post office, closed 30 Oct 1915 (mail routed through Montrose P.O.); pop. 250 in 1900

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