THE DAWN OF A NEW CENTURY
In September, 1944, St. Paul's Parish purchased the former home of Isaac Platt Treat on Orange Center Road, adjacent to the Orange Center School. Since that time, this building has been maintained as a Catholic Community House. At the present time, religious instruction is given to the Catholic children during the noon hour every Tuesday, under the supervision of Rev. John Horgan and some of the Sisters from St. Paul's Convent.
A very active Women's Guild holds frequent meetings here, while a Catholic Men's Club was formed in 1946. Both the Women's Guild and the Men's Club are working to accumulate a fund whereby a Mission Church or a Chapel may be built in the near future, to meet their needs.
In 1902 Mr. and Mrs. Wilson H. Lee came to Orange to live, having bought the farm of Lyman Nettleton, consisting of one hundred acres. Originally they planned to make it their summer home only, but after a few years they liked it so well that they decided to make it their permanent home, which was a very fortunate thing for the town.
Very soon Mr. Lee started the production of high- grade milk with one cow, adding more from time to time until he had a herd of nearly three hundred registered Ayrshire and Jersey cattle. Fairlea Farms milk became known throughout the state as the finest grade of milk. More land was acquired and more crops grown, until the farms comprised eight hundred acres.
Mr. Lee was a very successful printer, a member of the firm of Price, Lee and Adkins Co. of New Haven, which firm eventually became the Wilson H. Lee Company. In 1929 a new building was erected on the Boston Post Road in Orange, near his home, and was equipped with modern machinery for production of high-grade printing. All of the business was then moved to Orange.
In 1912 Prudence A. Lee was married to John R. Demarest, who later became the manager of the printing business. Both Mr. Lee and Mr. Demarest took a very
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