In 1815, George GORE worked at blacksmithing on the flats, near the GORE burying ground. Almost the earliest gathering of coal and its use in the smithy shop commenced in this township. Along the river, and even back some distance, the country is nearly one continuous village or borough. Mill Creek, postoffice named Hudson, is quite an important village, a short distance north of Parson. Here are four hotels, three general stores and one drug store.
Plains is a postoffice and one of the first settled points in the township.
For many years this was called Jacob s Plains and finally the double name was dropped and it became as now, Plains. This was in 1812 or 1813. The first frame schoolhouse was built about 1820 and stood near the site of the present schoolhouse. There is now a two-story schoolhouse in which a graded school is kept. It was built in 1866 and 1867.