The Dallas Post Centennial Edition Section 2 Wednesday, October 18, 1989 5 Main Street, Dallas Main Street, Dallas, has @wchanged over the years as can “pe seen above from the 1902 photo and one taken years later when the first paved highway ) “ was run through Dallas Borough. By CHARLOT M. DENMON Staff Writer Newcomers to the Back Moun- tain may wonder why Dallas Township virtually surrounds a small area named Dallas Borough. The answer, so we have been told, is due to a disagreement between a group of residents over a lack of support in paying school taxes to maintain the new Dallas High School on Huntsville Road more than 100 years ago. In 1878, residents of Dallas Village prepared a petition with a map, requesting the forming of a borough and presented it to a grand jury January 4, 1879. The Dallas Township supervisors, school directors and other resi- dents opposed the petition in the courts. Farmers and other residents drove to Wilkes-Barre in bobsleds and when necessary stayed in hotels. This continued until April, the petition for the formation of Dallas Borough. According to a history by Ry- man, signers on the petition were listed as Fayette Allen, Joseph Atherholt, B.W. Brickel, John T. Bulford, Franklin Bulford, Char- les H. Cooke, J.A. Fulkerson, John T. Fuller, C.D. Fulkerson, Tho- mas Garrahan, James Garrahan, J.B. Gerhardt, William J. Hon- eywell, C.D. Henderson, J.S. Henderson, William H. Law, James G. Laing, Leonard Machell, Tho- mas F. Oakley, S.B. Perrigo, Philip Raub, Andrew Raub, C.E. Raub, L.M. Rice, Jacob Rice, William H. Rice, J.J. Ryman, Theodore Ry- man, William Randall, George Randall, O.F. Roushey, S. Rumage, Barney Stroud, Ira D. Shaver, Fayette Shaver, George W. Shotwell, Lewis Starmer, Alex- ander Snyder, William Snyder, Christopher Snyder, C.A. Spencer, Peter Santee, J.B. Williamson, Spencer Warden, Chester White, G.W. Wilcox, Dwight Wolcott and S.H. Welsh. The boundary for the borough 1879, when the court approved 1879 fight over school taxes brought split of Dallas Borough, Twp. followed the outside property lines of those who signed the petition, making it resemble a jigsaw puzzle with 41 sides and a total area of only 2.259 square miles. In later years the location of some of the lines has been disputed. The division caused a great deal of ill feeling among residents and some in the township refused to shop in borough stores. Others went so far as to not pass through the borough. For years disparaging letters appeared in newspapers and in a few families bitter feelings were handed down to later generations. Despite some disputes over boundaries, many families and friends continued their friendships and in about 10 years township and borough residents worked together in starting and continu- ing the Woodlawn Cemetery, and helped build the Dallas Methodist Church on Church Street. They alsoworked together at the annual Dallas Fair and some worked side by side at the broom factory on Lake Street. The township tried to force the borough to divide the township debts by suing them. This caused alot of argument about assets and liabilities and finally the court ordered the two municipalities to divide the debtby the 1879 assess- ment. This resulted in the town- ship assuminga debt ofa little over $800. The borough, much smaller and with a lower assessment, assumed a debt of approximately $200. Among the signers of the peti- tion, the Machell family were early Dallas settlers and owned large farm lands on what is now Machell Avenue, Sterling Avenue and sur- rounding areas. Jacob Rice built and owned the first painted house in Dallas and his father, Christian Rice built and owned a sawmill in what later be- came Dallas Borough on property that his son Jacob owned foryears. That property was along Main Street in Dallas. 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