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Leech’s
Corners.—John Leech built a store about
1841, at Leech’s Corners, and was thus the first merchant at that
point. A post-office had been established at the same place early in
Jackson’s administration, in which William
Leech was commissioned postmaster, but it was subsequently
removed, as Leech was appointed justice of the peace, and the two
positions were incompatible in the same individual. The mail was then
carried on horseback, from Greenville to Franklin, twice a week, and
the receipts of the office were less than three dollars per year. At
the present time the Corners is the site of a church, school-house,
grist-mill, and saw-mill, a post-office, two blacksmith-shops, two
wagon-shops, and a grocery.
Cheese-factory.--In
1873, a building, 40 x 50 feet in dimensions, was erected near Leech’s
Corners, by Brickenridge &
Harper, as a cheese-factory, which has received the
general patronage of the surrounding neighborhood. From five to eight
cheeses of the ordinary size, are made daily, and they are manufactured
for the patrons, at one dollar and eighty-five cents per
hundred-weight. The manufacturer states that the returns have been
profitable.
History
of Mercer County,
1877, page 83
Landowners
map of Leechs Corners from the 1873 Atlas
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