Jessup Township

Methodist-Episcopal Church, Fairdale ca. 1915

Fairdale Church and Cemetery ca. 1910

Churches:
Fairdale Methodist Church located on Rt. 3029 & 106

*STOCKER'S HISTORY (1887)

The Rush Baptist Church was organized in Jessup in 1831. Meetings were held at the Bolles schoolhouse.

Wesleyan Methodists. The first church building in the township was built in 1841.

Methodist Episcopal Church was built in Fairdale. It was first a meetinghouse, replaced by the present edifice in 1868.
Cemeteries:
Bolles Cemetery, Rt. 706W
Cronk Cemetery, private property, Fairdale
Fairdale Cemetery, Rt. 706E in Fairdale
Sherman Cemetery, 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 (B.S. SH.) - (2) Town of Fairdale (includes one B.S. & Wagon Sh. - J. H. Lake); Dist. #1; Dist. #4
CREEKS/BROOKS - Forest Lake Creek- Dist. #1 & Chapman Dist.; Wyalusing Creek, (East Branch) Dist. #4; (South Branch) - Dist. #1, & Dist. #7
GRIST MILLS (G. MILL) - Dist. #7
HOTELS - Town of Fairdale (J. Decker)
SAW MILLS (S.M. or S. MILL) - (2) Dist. #1; Chapman Dist.; Dist. #4; Dist. #7
SCHOOLS - (Town of Fairdale) - Dist. #1; unnamed dist between Dist. #3 & Chapman Dist.; Dist. #3; Dist. #4; Dist. #5; Dist. #6; Dist. #7

Others:

Cold Spring, Dist. #5
Pleasant Vale, Dist. #5
Sightly Home, Dist. #5
Southern Slope, Dist. #5
Sunnyside, Dist. #5,
Valley Home, Dist. #4 (L. F. Cooper)
Valley View, Dist. #1
Woolen Mill (ruins of old), Dist. #1

Place Names, Old and New
Jessup Township was formed on 27 Apr 1846. Named in honor of Judge William Jessup, of Susquehanna County. For further information, see also Township Incorporations.

Fairdale, former post office, closed 31 May 1954 (mail routed through Montrose P.O.); pop. 80 in 1900.

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