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HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY 63
Miss Susan Williams taught the first term of school in the township
in a school built on the lake shore in 1814. The school building of the
Village of Vermillion Avas finished in 1874, and is a handsome brick
structure costing $18,000. It is a graded school of three grades
employing four teachers. The first sawmill, was erected by Joe Smith on
LaChapelle Creek in 1819. Formerly there was a large iron industry
in the township Avhich has been abandoned.
According to the Register of August 9, 1871, the following were the
business enterprises of the village:
Fischer & Company operated a planing mill and sash factory just
started in th" eastern part of the-town on the Black River'road. Kahres
& Pelton Avere in the lumber business. The Northern Hotel AA'as run by
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WEST LAKE STREET, LINWOOD
W. S. Irish, and had just been repainted and an ice cream parlor added
to it. Gay lord & Merrill (who was afterward probate judge) had a
general store and Delker & Englebry were about to move into their brick
block which had just been built. E. D. DeWitt was the jeweler and
Worthington & Sons and 0. A. Leonard were engaged in the stone
business.
At the time of the writing of this article Vermillion is a thriving
village of 1,369 population by the census of 1910. Its mayor is F. W.
Wakefield; clerk, L. C. Blattner; treasurer, L. A. Klaar; marshal, M. L.
Gross; council, D. J. Miller, M. A. Friday, George B. McConnelly, L. H.
McQueen, M. C. Gugenheimer and P. H. Darley. Its board of education
consists of A. E. Beeckel, G. S. Davis, A. H. Leimbach, Geo. H. Nuhn
and A. C. Hofrichter. Its postmaster is Edward M. Kane. It has two
banks, The Bank of Vermillion and the Erie County Banking Company.
It has two summer resorts, Shattuck 's Grove and Linwood Park, both of
which deservedly receive a large patronage.