In 1798, Judge Turhand Kirtland came to Township 1, Range 1 as an agent of the Connecticut Land Company, and in 1804 he donated the Village Green and the graveyard adjoining the church to the residents of Poland. On the Green, settlers built a log meetinghouse and school, local militia drilled there prior to 1812, and young men trained there in 1861 before leaving to fight in the Civil War. The graveyard contains some 450 graves of early Poland families, including Kirtland, Fowler, Walker, Morse, Arrel, Adair, Lee, McCombs, and Truesdale, and among those buried there are thirteen Revolutionary War veterans, thirteen veterans of the War of 1812, and ten men who fought in the Civil War. In 1862, Samuel K. Hine provided in his will for the maintenance of both the graveyard and the Green. Poland Presbyterian Church was established in May 1802 by Reverends William Wick and Joseph Badger, one year before Ohio became a state. Services were held on the Green until a log meetinghouse was completed in 1804, a white frame church was constructed there in 1828, and in 1855 it was replaced by a larger brick structure on the present site. The 1850 bell from the frame church was moved to the brick church and eventually to the present bell tower. The stone church was completed in 1897 with stone hauled to the site by church members using their own wagons and teams, and the sanctuary was renovated in 1952 and 1978. The congregation bought the house next to the church in 1948 for church offices, and the education unit was added in 1958.