RIDGEWAY TOWNSHIP
Ridgeway was set off from Macon March 5, 1841. The first elections was held in the village of Ridgeway, and the first supervisor elected, Augustus Montgomery, received eighty votes. The first town clerk was Timothy Baker. The first settlement within the present limits of Ridgeway was made in 1831, by George Drown, J. O. Dennis, Jonathan Clark, and Robert Wilson, who were soon followed by John Palmer, Francis Coats, Stephen V. Miller, George Brown, Cecil Clark, J. F. Schreeder, and others, many of whom are still living in the Township, while those who have passed away are represented by their children. The population of the Township is about 1000. The town derives its name from the natural ridge which runs diagonally through it, and is supposedly to have been formerly the shore of Lake Erie, or other inland water. Only about one-third of the land is tillable, but the 7780 acres under cultivation make a goodly show, according to the last census, viz, 21,741 bushels of wheat raised, value of all productions, $173,484; value of farms and livestock, $686,139. There are three churches in the Township. Ridgeway contains a small unincorporated village, and a post-office, both bearing the name of the town. Its polulation is about 300, and its shipments consist principally of grain, wool, lumber, and fruit. It has a daily mail; Peter Sharp the present (1874) postmaster.
Copyright Ed Van Horn, 2006, Port St Lucie, Florida