From Perry Township, a Bicentennial Perspective, Joelle Logue, Editor, published June, 1976

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• The first public road to cross through Perry Township, linking Jefferson County to Parker's Landing, opened in 1807.
• The first turnpike, spanning from Callensburg to Parker, opened in 1818.
• The first schoolhouse was built in Perry Township in 1806.
• In September, 1861, the worst flood in the history of the Clarion River occurred.  All bridges along the streams were washed out, and millions of feet of lumber were lost.  The flood speed averaged 14 miles per hour.  Since then, the Clarion and the Allegheny have been plagued with floods that usually happen in the early Spring when the ice begins to melt from heavy rains, causing the river to jam up.   West Monterey has been under water more times than its residents care to remember.

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• The West Freedom Academy was built in 1860-61.  It was not completed when the War broke out.  It had twelve rooms and two stories.  There is a drawing of the building in the book.
• West Freedom Methodist Church held services at the Pine Hollow School from 1825-1845.

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• The Pollock-Pine Hollow School  --  According to records from the West Freedom Methodist Church, two schools were in continuous operation from before the Civil War in the area near Matildaville.  A school was first built near the site of Loguetown about 1835 and then moved to Pollock property and named the Pollock School.  A complete list of teachers at this school from 1894-1924 is available.
• A school at Pine Hollow was apparently started about 1825, and classes were conducted in a log cabin.  A complete list of teachers at this school, from 1898 until classes were stopped in 1923, is available.

Source material for this work was A. J. Davis' History of Clarion County; Caldwell's Atlas of Clarion County, 1877; Helen Urban's Clarion County and Its Beginnings; and L. W. Hurling's March of Progress.