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We do know that at one time a school house was located approximately one-half mile west of the location of this school, on Original Lot 17, the north side of Kipton-Nickel Plate Rd, just west of Hallauer Rd. The exact location for the first school house in this area of the township is difficult to determine. 9)Ī ll of the original school houses in Pittsfield Township were of log construction. “THE McROBERTS SCHOOL” (Originally known as Sub-District No. PITTSFIELD TOWNSHIP SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. Pictured are the sons of Joseph Whitney: Mark Whitney and his brothers Josephus, Aaron and Augustine.

Photo above: Sons of Joseph Whitney (1785 - 1877 arriving in Pittsfield approx 1833) from Westminster, Massachusetts. Therefore, Milton Whitney and Joseph Whitney were distant cousins. All were descendant's of John Whitney, who migrated from England to Watertown, Massachusetts in 1635. There were three Whitney families that settled in Pittsfield Twp., Ohio Milton Whitney, Nathan Whitney, and Joseph Whitney. ( Williams Brothers, History of Lorain County 1879 , Philadelphia pg 579 - 580). He purchased a large tract of land in the developing township. Milton Whitney came from Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in 1820, the year after the Pittsfield Township survey had been made. 2:1477 #3163 Elyria Courthouse and US Census 1830- 1880 Pittsfield, Lorain, OH. Milton Whitney gave Jeremiah and Thomas Waite each 50 acres of land in Pittsfield to settle. Waite sons Jeremiah and Thomas, The First Permanent Settlers In Pittsfield Twp. Peter McRoberts was the very first arrival after the organization of Pittsfield. They were also mentioned as surveyors in some of deeds given the first settlers. A fact pointing to this conclusion was the discovery of a lot of surveyor's instruments in their cabin a number of years after they left.

It is not improbable that these men made the original survey the township.

They remained in the vicinity some time after his departure. The Father is known to have gone into the army of the United States and whether his sons also entered the military is a matter of conjecture. They remained here for some time but fear of the Indians and the British soldiers who were at that time scouring the country induced them to leave. As early as 1812 or 1813 they cleared a small spot of ground on the northeast corner of lot ninety six and built a log cabin. The first white men ever known to have been inhabitants of this township were a man by the name of Baker and his two sons.

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