S hermanville is a small village located in the northwestern part of the Sadsbury Township.
It was laid out along the canal by Anson Sherman, and the plat acknowledged and recorded
January 18, 1842.  The plat is irregular in outline, and all lots except fractional ones are 60x160
feet in size.  Main Street is fifty feet wide, and Oak, Elm, Vine and Canal, each forty.  A Mr.
Craven is said to have been the first settler.  Anson Sherman, who died in 1873, aged seventy-
nine years, and Peter Bakeley, were the leading early residents.  During the palmy days of the
canal, the village was a lumber shipping point of  considerable note.  The Shermanville of to-day
contains nineteen dwellings, a school, a blacksmith-shop, a store, a flourishing steam saw-mill,
owned by Thayer & Ladner, and a Methodist Episcopal Church.