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Maysville
is a little village in the center of [West Salem] township, and contains a store and cheese factory,
owned by E. O. Brown,
and also a blacksmith shop. The West Salem Baptist Church is a
part of the village, and a good brick school-house furnishes full
educational advantages for the youth of the vicinity. The first
grist-mill in the township was built, in 1829 by, at this point by John
Gravat. The water-power was furnished
by Big Run, which flows through Maysville. In 1846 Thomas
McMahan erected a sawmill on the run, and
two years afterward he built a steam grist-mill near the village.
He operated this about
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twenty years and then sold it to Philip
Schuster, who ran it until it was burned
down. In 1873 John Mussell
built a cheese- factory at Maysville, which was burned, and in 1875
Morford
& Clark rebuilt it. This, too,
was finally burned, and the present [1888] one was then erected by J.
W. Woods. A post-office was
established in Maysville February 16, 1852 with George
E. Hasenplug as postmaster. It was
discontinued November 25, 1872.
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From the History of
Mercer
County, 1888, p. 610
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