HISTORY OF ORANGE
Society Meeting December 1, 1834, a new district was formed, called the Fourth District, and soon after a schoolhouse was built in that section of the town, near the Wepauwaug River, where nearly every family bore the name of Clark, which section has ever since been known as ''Clarktown.'' After this division, it was eventually decided to move the location of the Second District schoolhouse. The old schoolhouse was sold to Merritt Pardee for $30 and moved up to his premises, and a new plot of ground, corner of Ridge Road and Old Grassy Hill Road, was bought from Lyman Treat for $50. The new schoolhouse was built, with Miss Martha Miles the first teacher.
There was evidently a call to use the schoolhouses on Sunday, for on November 3, 1836, they voted that religious meetings could be held in the schoolhouses on Sabbath days, provided that two cupboards were furnished to hold the school books, without any expense to the district.
In 1848 the Second District paid Miss Caroline Russell $27.50 for teaching school for 22 weeks. Dennis Andrew was paid $3.00 for boarding the teacher for two weeks. The system of the length of the terms was changed in 1851. Instead of a summer and a winter term, the year was divided into three terms, the winter term to consist of twelve weeks and the spring and fall terms to be fourteen weeks each, and the committee was instructed to obtain teachers from the Normal School if possible.
This same year, legal complications seemed to have developed regarding the land on which the Third District house was built. Rather than take it to court, the best way out of the controversy appeared to be to sell the old schoolhouse to A. H. and C. B. Alling for $58 and secure a new location on the other side of the street, on which they built a new schoolhouse, taxing the property of the district in order to pay the bill.
On October 23, 1855, the School Society decided that they needed a new hearse. Accordingly, they voted to sell the old hearse and harness and buy a new hearse and har-
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