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 COLUMBIA AND MONTOUR COUNTIES many o f (he descendants of the pioneers re­ siding on the lands owned by their forefathers. The stone house built by H arm an K lin e, near O rangeville, in 1826, is still in fine condition. It w as not until 1796 that A bram K lin e se­ cured a title to his land. T h e tract had been surveyed fo r H ester Barton, who m arried I ’aul Zantzinger, and from him (he title w as secured by Kline. O ther owners about this time were George C utts, W illiam M ontgom ery, Cather­ ine Razor, Frederick Y u cn glin g and A ndrew Krouse. T he settlers who follow ed the Klines and took up these lands were the W hites, Parks and Culps, from N ew je r s e y; and G eorge and Frederick R an iz, Jam e s V an H orn, the Netenhachs and the W crcm ans, from Berks and Northampton counties. P a. In 1800 Peter Blank and A nd rew I.arish came from New Jersey, and Sam uel Staddon from Lancaster county. P a. L u d w ig H erring and the Vance and Patterson fam ilies cam e some y e ars later. INDUSTRIES

Before he had been in the county long Abram Kline bu ilt a sawm ill on Green creek, not fa r from L a u re l hill. It w as abandoned a fte r a few y e ars’ use and is now completely obliter­ ated. A nother mill w as built by H enry G eiger in early tim es on Fishing creek, west of the present town o f O rangeville. H e sold it in 1822 to Ja c o b ^ i d l e, and in 1845 W esley B ow ­ man bought it and completely rebuilt it. H is son, H en ry, ran it till his death, and it is now in the hands o f Benjam in C. Bowm an. Three turbines, o f 50 horsepower each, operate the modem m achinery o f this mill, and the prod­ uct is a fine grade o f wheat flour which sells all over the county. T h e capacity of the mil! is fifty barrels o f wheat and fifty barrels o f buckwheat flour daily. OR.VNCEVILLF.

This village is one of the most picturesque in the county, and while not possessing any pretentious dw ellings, has many attractive and homelike cottages, surrounded by trees and flowers. The town wa.s laid out by Clemuel G. R ick ­ etts, o f Fairfield county. O hio, who came here in 18 2 2. N oting the advantages of the site for a village, he bought it from Henr)' Dildine and other heirs o f A ndrew D ildine and took possession of the house ju st vacated by Hannan T^ibour. T h is house and the farm ­ house o f .braham Eveland w ere the only ones on the site o f O rangeville at the time. Rickett.s IT

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straightened the road and sold two tots to E lish a Boone, who at once b<^an the erection o f a house and tannery. H e bought a stock o f goods from an E sp y mercliant and opened the first store in the town in the sam e y e a r that it w as founded. L u d w ig H erring w as em­ ployed to haul the goods fo r the store from Philadelphia, yearly. T h e third house w as built by D avid M click, and at once occupied by PhUip Sn yder and Solom on Sieg frie d, from Northam pton county. On the corner later owned by A lexan d er 11. Stew art, Ricketts built the next house, which w as occupied by D avid F au sey as an inn. A few years later Ricketts built the brick hotel now known as the "O rangeville Hotel.” John U nger, who cam e to O rangeville in 1824, built many of the houses later erected here. T h e name of the town w as adopted at a town meeting at the su ^ c stio n of the pro­ prietor. who said that a s many of the resi­ dents had come from O range county, N . Y ., and O range, N . J ., it would please them to pcr))ctuatc the name. S o the town received the name o f O rangeville, about 1824. A . B . H erring, son o f L u dw ig H erring, built the first gristm ill in the town. It w as burned in late years, and the site is now occupied by the Conner electric light plant. T h e Floonc tannery w as continued fo r many years. It had a rival in the tannery o f M iles A . W illiam s, built in 1856. Both of these have l>een long since abandoned. A distillery once occupied the site of the present Methodist church. One o f (he first undertaking establishments in the county w as («)cne<l here in 18 53 by A l­ fred Howelf. In 1K55 Jam es B. H arm an be­ came ])ruprictor and brought to the town the first hearse. H e also embarked in the manu­ facture o f furniture. ni.s successor is A . E . Patterson. Abraham Eveland, son of the first resident on the site of the town, has been engaged in shoem aking here fo r o ver twenty-five years. M . S . H ayhurst has been repairing watches and clocks fo r more tlian thirty years in O ran ge­ ville. I lis quaint .sign has hung from its post fo r almost that length o f time. T he storekeepers in 19 14 arc B . F . Quick, Jero m e B . D ei^m g, P e rry D eLong, G . N . Sm ith and G . S . Fleckenstine. T h e village .smith is J . C . Sm ith. T he O rangeville Printery is operated by F . M . Bowm an, who does a gcKxl business, but does not publish a paper. T he old "Centennial H o tel" w as last run hy I I . C. Conner, but its site is now occupied by the Presbyterian church. T h e "H eckm an H ouse” is managcil b y I I. A. Sh affer. T he