BROWNHELM BELL Traditional Cache
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THIS IS A RAGE LOCAL HISTORY CACHE FOR THE TOWNSHIP OF BROWNHELM. THIS IS AN EASY MAGNETIC CACHE AND DASH. ENJOY THE HISTORY AND THE FUN!!!
BROWNHELM HISTORY
THE FIRST SETTLER OF TOWN #6, RANGE 19, WAS COL. HENRY BROWN FROM STOCKBRIDGE MASS./ HE WAS ACCOMPANIED BY PETER P. PEASE , CHARLES WHITTLESEY, WILLIAM ALVERSON AND WILLIAM LINCOLN, WHO HELPED COLONEL BROWN BUILD HIS HOUSE. ANOTHER LOCAL THAT CONTRIBUTED TO THE BUILD WAS SETH MORSE. WHITTLESEY STAYED IN THE TOWN AND LATER BECAME A DISTINGUISHED GENERAL OF THE CIVIL WAR AND ALSO AN ARCHEOLOGIST AND HISTORIAN. HE BECAME THE FOUNDER OF THE WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND WAS THEIR PRESIDENT FOR MANY YEARS. THE TOWNSHIP OF BROWNHELM WAS NAMED AFTER THE LEADER OF THE ORIGINAL COLONY COL. BROWN. THE FIRST SETTLERS THAT CAME TO THE TOWN LIVED NEAR COL BROWN'S LOG CABIN. THEY WERE THE FAMILIES OF LEVI SHEPARD, SYLVESTER BARNUM AND STEPHEN JAMES. THE FAMILIES ARRIVED ON THE 4TH OF JULY 1817 AFTER A LARGE CELEBRATION ON THE SHORES OF LAKE ERIE. LATER THIS SAME YEAR MORE FAMILIES ARRIVED IN BROWNHELM, AMONG NOTABLE NAMES WERE, CURTIS, BACON, SCOTT, FAIRCHILD, COOPER, PECK, AVERY, COOLEY, SAGE AND GRAHAM.
THE FIRST FRAMED HOUSE IN THE TOWN WAS BUILT BY BENJAMIN BACON AND THE FIRST BRICK HOUSE IN THE COUNTY WAS BUILT BY GRANDISON FAIRCHILD IN THE SUMMER OF 1819. BETWEEN THE YEARS OF 1817 AND 1818 BROWNHELM WAS PART OF THE BLACK RIVER. THEN IN 1819 THE TOWN ORGANIZED AND BECAME SEPARATED FROM THE BLACK RIVER. AN ELECTION WAS HELD IN THE SPRING OF 1819 HELD AT THE HOUSE OF GEORGE BACON. THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE WERE ELECTED LENARD, SHEPARD, CURTIS BECAME THE TRUSTEES., COOPER TO THE TOWNSHIP CLERK., ALVERSON WAS THE TREASURER., BACON AND SHEPPARD BECAME THE JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. THIS PERFECTED THE BROWNHELM AS ITS OWN TOWNSHIP AND MADE IT SELF SUSTAINING.
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