A hewn-log schoolhouse was erected on this site during the winter of 1852-53 by school district no. 9, Township of Milwaukee. The structure also served as a public meeting house and as a place for church services by the Reformed Church of Bethlehem, a Dutch Reformed congregation. In 1868, the adjoining tract was deeded to that congregation for cemetery purposes, although grave markers indicate that burials had taken place there as early as 1854.