Meyersville
According to township records, Meyersville is the oldest settlement with many German settlersand dates back to the 1700's. Unfortunately we do not know very much about this part of the township. It has been reported that around 1600 the King of France gave a grant of land in the Great Swamp to a French Huguenot by the name of Bebout. In the 1730's another member of the Bebout family came from Holland. His son Peter settled in Meyersville. The Bebout family remained in Meyersville until about 25 years ago and the family owned three of the oldest houses in Meyersville. The town was named for Kasper W. Meyer, a wealthy mane of his day who donated a large tract of land to the German Church and cemetery. Meyer was buried on his own farm somewhere in the woods off the eastern end of Long View Terrace. The gravestone marker has never been found. Meyersville in its earliest time was spelled Myersville. In 1813 the Long Hill schoolhouse was built to serve Meyersville, Gillette, and Stirling. It was a one room schoolhouse with 8 grades. The last teacher to work there was Miss Rachel G. Cornish. In 1923 the school was closed and the students went to the Elm Street school. The schoolhouse was sold for $750 to Thomas G. Clynes and was made into a house at 918 Long Hill Road. Anonther one room school house was built in the 1900's in Meyersville and was called the Swamp School. In the 1870's the post office was in a building directly south of the Meyersville Inn. It was owned by the postmaster Charles Hoffman who was also the store keeper. The post office is now the Trading Post along with Ottomans General Store. The first mail carrier here was Julius Gehrke.