This house was raised July 4, 1856. There were several temporary or pre-emption shanties built the year previous. He thinks his father's was the only house at that time between Spring Creek and Oliver's Grove, the only road or trail running through his farm. Land seekers and travelers came in great numbers, stopping over night at the Lyman homestead. This same year, a colony from Connecticut took up several thousand of acres in this immediate vicinity. This event was hailed with grate joy by the Lyman family. Among these colonists were S. K. Marston, who afterward taught the first singing school, and his estimable wife was the first public school teacher in that township; E. L. Havens, Capt. A. C. Maxon, S. C. Burt, John T. Forbes, Lyman Peck, J. M. Wyman; later came G. H. Thompson, G. B. Winter, H. J. Gamble and others. The first Sunday school was held at the house of Mr. Peck. First preaching was by Rev. Bishop Hall, Methodist, and Rev. Lemual Foster, Congregationalist, and then Rev. Mr. Needham. These services were held at the various homes of the farmers. A series of meetings were held a year or two later, by Revs. Foster and Needham, and many, including nearly all the young people, united with the church. A union church was organized and continued several year, but finally merged into a Congregational Church.
--Historical Atlas of Ford County, 1884. Page 13.
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