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The
only village in [French Creek] township is Milledgeville.
It was laid out upon donation lot 1,063 in 1851, the land on which it
stands being owned at the time by William U.
Cooper, Andrew Williams and William Edeburn. The surveyor was John
Farver. The first dwelling-house erected in it was owned by Arthur
Scott. William McCabe built the first frame dwelling.
History
of Mercer County,
1888, page 553.
The
settlement called Milledgeville was
officially begun in 1851, when the plat was surveyed. One or two mills
had been operated here some years before, and after the laying out of
the village a congregation of the Christian denomination was organized
(in 1852) and in 1858 the Milledgeville Presbyterian church. The Deer
Creek Methodist church had been organized a little after 1840, and their
house of worship was about a mile and a half from the village. The
postoffice was established in August, 1839, under the name of Deer
Creek, with William R. Cooper as
postmaster. The name was changed to Milledgeville in 1852. Rural
delivery brought about the abandonment of this office.
Twentieth
Century History of Mercer County,
1909, page165
Landowners
in and near Milledgeville, from the 1873 Combined
Atlas of Mercer County |
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