The corner stone of Zion chapel was laid by the Rector of Zion church, on the 2d of Oct , 1867, and the building was occupied for Divine service the following summer. The chapel is a frame, gothic structure, and will seat 300 persons, and cost over $5,000. There was no debt upon it.

In the year 1869, the Parish church was again enlarged, by the addition of a recess-chapel with organ and vestry room, and the church was repaired throughout. The improvements cost $8,000, all paid for.

In 1878, the Rectory was remodelled and improved at an expense of $1,500.

At Dearman's, now Irvington, was erected a building chapelwise, so as to be used separately as a school, or treated as a church. 'When needed for worship, the whole becomes a church.

The dedication of the chapel school of St. Barnabas took place on Saturday, June nth, 1853, the festival of St. Barnabas. The following particulars touching the origin of its free scholarship, may not be without interest in showing how a good scheme prospers under God's blessing.

From a friend interested in the village of Irvington, came its first landed endowment, viz : The two village lots, (50 feet by 100) with two adjoining gores, on which the building stands; the gift of one bearing an honored name, the grandson and name-sake of the friend, companion and counsellor of Washington, a name and gift now perpetuated in the 'John Jay Scholarship.' A second bears in its name an equal national rank and character, viz: the 'Alexander Hamilton Scholarship,' through the kindness of the grandson and name-sake of that eminent leader in Washington's counsels and framer of our country's policy. A