1822. A convention of delegates met to consider the advisability of building “The Housatonic Valley Canal.” Funds were raised and an estimate of the expense of construction made. The enterprise failed.
1823. A Baptist meeting-house erected near Lower Merryall burying place.
Glover Sanford began making hats in Bridgewater.
1824. The first Methodist Church organized by Rev. C. Silliman.
1826. Peter Gaylord appointed first Postmaster, Gaylordsville.
Union Church building erected, Gaylordsville.
The trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Northville bought of Henry Benson a piece of land for erecting a house of worship.
1827. Sylvanus Merwin erected a store and hotel on west side.
1828-9, A Methodist meeting-house was built at the Corners at the old John Warner place in Lanesville.
1830. Anan Hine, James S. Clark, and George Taylor, and such other persons as they shall associate with them, not exceeding twenty in the whole, be and they and their successors