Middletown Township

Farm Scene, Middletown Township

Rowland & Wallace Jones and tractor salesman

Churches:
St. Patrick's Catholic Church (Bixby Pond) located on Rt. 858

St. John's Catholic Church, at Flynn (Burned, no building) located in Flynn

*STOCKER'S HISTORY (1887)

The Methodists built a building near the Howard mill at Middletown Centre early, for school and church purposes. Membership dwindled and a meetinghouse was built on the county line, near Prattsville.

The Jackson Valley Wesleyan Methodists built a small meetinghouse about 1877. The religious interests of the township were, to a large extent, connected with those of Friendsville and other organizations outside its bounds.
Cemeteries:
Coleman Cemetery, Rt. 858 about 1 mi. above Middletown/Rush border on right, across from Railbow Inn

Middletown, St. John's, Flynn, T630

Middletown Center/Stedwell Farm, Rt. 858 above Middletown Center

Prattsville Cemetery, T539

Building and Geographic Information According to the 1872 Beers' Atlas of Susquehanna County. To obtain copies of maps e-mail us for details
B. SHOPS - Dist. #2
BLACK SMITH SHOPS (B.S. SH.) - Dist #1
CREEKS/BROOKS - Summers Creek - Dist #1, unnamed dist between Dist. #1 & Dist. #2, Dist. #4; North Branch Wyalusing Creek -Dist. #7; Dist. #8; Dist. #4; Dist. #2
GRIST MILLS (G. MILL) - Dist. #4
PONDS - Bixbee Pond Dist. #6
SAW MILLS (S.M. or S. MILL) - Dist. #1; Dist. #2 (N Barnum); Dist. #7; Dist. #8
SCHOOLS - Dist. #1; Dist. #2; Dist. #4 (Baldwin); Dist. #4 (Middletown Centre P.O.); Dist. #5; Dist. #6; Dist. #7; Dist. #8

Others:

Cider Mill - Dist. #1
Furniture Factory - Dist. #8
Wolf Road - Dist. #4; Dist. #5; Dist. #6

Place Names, Old and New
Middletown Township was formed during the January Session (of the Court of Quarter Sessions) in 1814. For further information, see also Township Incorporations.

Flynn, former post office, closed 30 Oct 1915 (mail routed through Birchardville P.O.).

Jackson Valley, former hamlet in the northwest part; the area was settled in 1817 by Samuel and Abner Taggart, of New Hampshire. A post office was established there 19 Aug 1843 in the home of Charles Campbell (who also opened the first store in the area, in 1854); it closed 31 July 1909 (mail routed through Little Meadows P.O.); pop. 175 in 1900; northwest part of the twp.

Middletown Centre, former post office, closed 31 Oct 1908 (mail routed through Friendsville post office; pop. 67 in 1900.

Northbranch, former post office, closed 3 Oct 1908 (mail routed through Friendsville P.O.); pop. 25 in 1900.

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