In 1820, Mark Evans, John Davis, and Jacob Waggoner acquired from Daniel Triplett an 18-rod-square parcel of approximately two acres at this location to build the first school in Plain Township. Because education was not publicly funded at the time, the first teacher, Jacob Smith, kept school for $1.50 per scholar. Part of the school lot later became a cemetery, suggesting that the log building was also used for church services, as was a log school a mile and a half east on Cenrtal College Road. The cemetery lies in the northeast quarter of the township, and many buried here belonged to families that settled the area soon after 1812, when the federal government offered the 8,000 acres in the township's northern half to all comers at $2 an acre. Rebecca Frampton's tombstone recalls the hazards pioneers faced as they transformed the wilderness: her three infant daughters died on April 30, 1827, and twenty-nine-year-old Rebecca died on June 5. Other tombstones recall past wars, including War of 1812 service by Zimri Hills and Christian Horlocker and Civil War service by Alvin Evans and Peter Bevelhymer. Sales in 1860 and 1881 reduced the property to its present size.