There was a school established in South Pond village in 1796. In this year the town voted $850.00 to maintain all the schools of the town, mostly primary and grammar schools for young males. Earlier, in 1793, the town voted to establish female schooling, based on six months per year, with one teacher and one session being held for them one hour in the forenoon and one hour in the afternoon at the close of the regular daily sessions. Discrimination against girls, obviously, but at least a start was made. The South Pond schoolhouse is now converted into a dwelling house beside the chapel. Nearby is another schoolhouse also converted into a dwelling house. The S. Bourne map of Plymouth in 1830 shows a school location on the road near the junction of the watercourse and the stream from Finney’s meadow which later becomes Eel River. The homesteads in the area toward the end of the eighteenth century included those of Samuel Wright-John Burgess and that of Belcher Manter, as well as Jonathan Holmes. South of the chapel were other Burgess dwellings and that of Nathaniel Thomas. These locations are near the third share of the sixth great lot and near the fourth share at Gunner’s Exchange Pond. One of the Nathaniel Thomases served in the Revolution. The Joshua Wright homestead was in the vicinity. The road northeast to Plymouth center was approximately five miles long for the horse-drawn team or carriage. The Burgess Road followed along not far from the eastern shore of South Pond. The roads were selected for as much lack of grade as possible to avoid hills for horses and teams. The Baptist Road continued south to College Pond and then west to Carver. Settled land in this area was not common. There were some farms near Bloody and Half-Way Ponds. Long Pond Road went through South Pond village, later crossing Mast Road at the Four Corners. It went eventually southward beyond Herring Pond to Sandwich. Belcher Manter had a homestead built probably during the last quarter of the eighteenth century one mile north of the Burgess homestead near the shore of South Pond. Near his house a stream called Watercourse began at the Pond and flowed downhill east through his property and eventually joining a stream from Finney’s Meadow to Russell Mill Pond and Eel River to the ocean. The cut fieldstone sides of this stream can still be seen near the site of the house. There was a grist mill on this stream, as mentioned in old deeds. The Watercourse has now largely dried up except in periods of very high water in South Pond, since the 1850’s a source of Plymouth’s water supply.