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| | Celebrate 175 years for Arcadia |
 | | When Ontario County was created, January 27, 1789, part of that territory, the present towns of Sodus, Lyons, Arcadia, Marion, Walworth and Macedon, were designated as the "District of Sodus." March 1, 1811 the Town of Lyons (including the present Arcadia) was set off as a separate township. |
 | | Elected as supervisor of the town was Col. James P. Bartle, who had been supervisor of the town of Lyons since 1824. |
 | | Also elected at that first town meeting was: Theodore Partridge, town clerk; Hezekiah Dunham, Joseph Luce, and Andrew Finch, assessors; Hiram Soverhill, William Terry and James McCain, constables; Caleb P. Lippett, Artemus Doane and John L. Kip, commissioners of common schools; George W. Scott, Artemus Doane, and Joseph A. Miller, inspectors of common schools. |
| www.cgazette.com /towns/Newark/history/950027850171.htm (870 words) |
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