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first
mill built on the stream below Pine Grove [Grove City], in
the present limits of Mercer County.
Coal used to be taken from the
bank near Courtney's Mill and sold in Mercer at the extremely low price
of three cents per bushel.
A school-house was built early
on a farm then owned by John McKee,
soon after he settled,
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and it was afterward moved to the David
Courtney mill, and thence to Thomas
Courtney's farm. The first school house
was built of logs, and some of the early teachers in the neighborhood
were Mr. Starret, Mr. Williams,
Alexander Riddle and others.
History of Mercer County,
1877, pages 55 and 56
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