New Milford Township

Churches: Lakeside Methodist Church located on Rt. 492 Lakeside Community Church, Baptist, located on Rt. 492 South New Milford Baptist Church located on Rt. 848 *STOCKER'S HISTORY(1887) & NEW MILFORD HISTORY Lakeside Methodist Church. As early as 1827 Methodists met and continued to meet until they built their church in 1883 at Lakeside. It was remodeled in 1943. The annex was built in 1954-55. Lakeside Community Church. The church edifice was begun in 1949 and completed in 1954. Moxley Church or South New Milford Baptist Church. On Feb. 11, 1827 a meeting was held at the Moxley schoolhouse to organize a Baptist church. On Feb. 22, 1827, the Baptist Church of Christ in New Milford was duly constituted. Meetings were held in schoolhouses and private dwellings until the church was built and dedicated Jan. 15, 1851. In 1954 the church was reorganized and is now an independent church. Churches in New Milford Borough St. John the Apostle Catholic Church, located at the corner of Main & Washington Sts. New Milford United Methodist Church located at Pratt and Church Sts. New Milford First Baptist Church located at 170 Main St. St. Mark's Episcopal Church located on Main St. Presbyterian Church (vacant) *STOCKER'S HISTORY(1887) & NEW MILFORD HISTORY The First Baptist Church. On Nov. 15, 1885 a group met to organize a church in the Borough. The first meetings were held in the G.A.R. rooms on the second floor of W.G. Smith's store at 244 Main Street. On October 19, 1886 an organizational meeting was held and later that year a decision was made to purchase land on Main Street. In September money was borrowed to erect a church, which was built at a cost of $2880, including the furnace. The church was dedicated July 12, 1894. The 1st Methodist Episcopal Church was built in 1849 at the foot of "Dugaway Hill" (about 22 Jackson Rd.). It was chartered April 20, 1849 and dedicated Christmas day of the same year. It was moved to its present location by oxen in the fall of 1884, improved on and rededicated in 1908. St. Mark's Episcopal Church was organized on July 1, 1816 and chartered Sept. 2, 1817. The building of the church was started in the spring of 1827. The church was consecrated and named St. Marks on October 4, 1829. St. Mark's combines elements of Greek and Gothic Revival architectural styles reminiscent of New England's Congregational churches. The Presbyterians first organized and started as the Union Congregational Church of Liberty and New Milford. In 1826 they organized in New Milford. On January 7, 1850 a charter was presented and accepted and a deed was given to the Congregational Church & Society by Frederick and Martha Badger. A dedication service was held on May 23, 1850. However, the early minutes often refer to the church as Presbyterian and on April 3, 1869 the government of the church was changed from Congregational to Presbyterian. St. John's Roman Catholic Church. The first mass was celebrated in 1825 at the Boyle home. The first Catholic church was built and dedicated in July, 1871. An addition was added in 1874. The church was partially destroyed by fire in 1939 and the chapel was rebuilt and moved from its original site to its present site on the corner of Main and Washington Streets.   Cemeteries: Boyle or St. John's Cemetery, New Milford Borough New Milford Cemetery, New Milford Borough Williams' Cemetery, Rt. 81 seems to go through or near this cemetery.

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.) - Dist. #15 CREEKS/BROOKS - Beaver Creek - Dist. #1 & Dist. #5; Martins Creek, Dist. #6; Mitchel's Creek Dist. #12; Salt Lick Creek, unnamed dist. Dist. #12; Dist. #1;Dist. #14; Dist. #9, Dist. #15 GRIST MILLS (G. Mill) - Dist. #9 LAKES - Duck Lake, Joint Dist.; East Lake, Dist. #13; Hart Lake, Dist. #6; Hunt Lake, Dist. #11; Upper Lake, Dist. #7 PONDS - Page Pond, Dist. #15; Tucker's Pond, Dist. #2 SAW MILLS (S.M. or S. MILL) - Unnamed dist. , (2) Dist. #2; Dist. #9; Dist. #12; Dist. #13; Dist. #14; Dist. #15 SCHOOLS - Dist. #1; Dist. #2; Dist. #3; Dist. #4; Dist. #5; Dist. #6; Dist. #7; Dist. #8; Dist. #9; Dist. #10; Dist. #11; Dist. #12; Dist. #13; Dist. #14; Dist. #15 STORES - Dist. #13 Others: Cider Mill, Dist. #2 Factories - Bedstead Fact., Dist. #15; Cheese Fact., Dist. #6 Railroads - D. L. & W., Dist. #6, Dist. #7, Dist. #8, unnamed dist. (depot) Roads/Turnpikes - Harford Road - Dist. #2 & Dist. #7; Susquehanna Road - Dist. #9 & Dist. #13; Drinker Turnpike - Dist. #2 Dist. #11; Newburg Turnpike - Dist. #1, unnamed dist., Dist. #2, Dist. #3 Springs - Dist. #5 & Dist. #8 Summersville - Dist. #1 (2) Tanneries - unnamed dist. Town Poor Farm, Dist. #9 Union Mill, unnamed dist.

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