The Parma farmlands were pioneered in 1808 by Matthias Lane, a New Jersey Dragoon in the American Revolution who guarded the Congress on its flight from Philadelphia in 1777. The Chase-Flack House, built circa 1845, became an Underground Railroad station. Isaac Chase donated land for Cobblestone Christian Church, and Isaac Chase, Jr. served as a State Assemblyman in 1848 and as Parma Supervisor for nine years.