THE TOWN GETS A NEW NAME
ness, taxing themselves 1 1/4 cents on the dollar on the list of 1855 to pay for it. A small building had been built in the rear of the cemetery, where the hearse was kept. It was also ordered that Alpheus N. Merwin take charge of the hearse and go with it when called upon to attend funerals, collecting his pay from the persons who required his services.
At the same time they voted to pay $120 to Benjamin T. Clark for an acre of land to enlarge the cemetery. This vote was later rescinded, as the land was bought by the Town and not by the School Society.
By 1859 it was found that the First District needed a new schoolhouse, so they voted to build one as near as possible to the location of the old building. In all these carefully-kept records, extending for over a hundred years, never once was there any mention made of the number of pupils in the schools, and very few of the teachers are named.
Much has been written in song and legend about ''the little red schoolhouse," but as far as can be learned, the schoolhouses in Orange were always painted white.
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