Settled in 1806 as Conrad's Mills and later renamed Cadiz, this tiny hamlet in the Township of Franklinville was centered on dairy farming. The Ontario Knife Company began here in 1898 before moving to the Village of Franklinville. Cadiz also became a center of the Underground Railroad, where escaping slaves were rafted up Ischua Creek and hidden in local homes and the Stagecoach Inn at the four corners, with the Meads, Burlingames, and Searles among the families involved. The Howe Prescott Pioneer House, built circa 1814 on this site, later served as the home of abolitionist Merlin Mead in 1841 and now serves as a museum for the Ischua Valley Historical Society. George L. White, born here in 1838 to blacksmith and abolitionist William White, founded the Jubilee Singers at Fisk University in Tennessee in 1871. Composed of former slaves, the original choir toured worldwide to raise money for the university, and White, as musical director, is credited with helping preserve spirituals and songs passed down in bondage; the Jubilee Singers still exist today.