Schools and Churches

 

Places of education and worship are the centerpieces of communities. The first schoolhouse in Catlin was built on Martin’s Hill in 1820. By the 1890s, there were 12 schoolhouses in the town. The last of them closed in 1957. A branch of the Baptist Church of Big Flats held religious services in Catlin as early as 1836. In the 1850s, Seventh Day Adventists offered Sabbath school classes at School No. 1 in Catlin Center. The Full Gospel Church is now located at the site. The First Methodist Church was the first church built in the town in 1881. It is one of four churches still serving the community today. There are 15 known cemeteries in Catlin including the Pine Valley Cemetery,

the only one still taking new burials.