The plat established 128 lots, reserving some for the construction of a courthouse, market house, and place of public worship.

McFarland was a county judge and Hillis, a popular local politician, later became lieutenant governor of Indiana.

Service went to Dupont, then to Republican and Franklin Mills, before returning to Lancaster on August 19, 1841.

It operated until 1888 when it was purchased by Lancaster Township and the stone college building was used as an elementary school until 1937.

According to George Cottman’s History of Lancaster Township, Christians took over a building that had been used by a Methodist congregation, that was failing.

A Methodist congregation which acquired land southwest of the town on February 16, 1850, may have been the same one operating in Lancaster in 1861.

But the trustees of the Lancaster Methodist Church sold their property to a private individual on March 14, 1863.

Jefferson County deeds show the McConnells sold the property to trustees for a Methodist church on and January 3, 1906 and this body was still active in the 1920s.