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Quakertown

As soon as Arthur Power had reared the log buildings and completed such work as was the most immediately necessary upon the land of his son Nathan, he proceeded with his force to clear a site and erect a large log house on the high ground on the northeasterly side of the creek, opposite the present village, and this house he made his residence for a time. About two years after, however, he built another large, long log house on his land in the northeast quarter of section 28, the location being now within the village, where stands the orchard of his son, William Power.

Dr. Ezekiel Webb, who had been a neighbor and friend of Mr. Power in Ontario county, New York, and who was also a member of the society of Friends, was one of the immigrants of 1824. He arrived late in the season, and built a large double log house in the northeast quarter of section 28, the spot being precisely where now stands the house of Mrs. Cynthia Collins, in Farmington Centre.

Dr. Webb was the first and only resident physician in the township, and his establishment there, in addition to the building of the large house by Mr. Power, and his (Power's) contemplated erection of a mill upon the stream, seemed to confer on that point and its vicinity an importance beyond that possessed by any other neighborhood in the township, and to mark it as the possible site of a future village. Thus it became a place of comparative note, and was known among the settlers for several miles around as "Quakertown;" the designation being given on account of the religious tenets of several of the neighboring residents, but more particularly with reference to Mr. Power and Dr. Webb.