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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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