Millville, Pennsylvania
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 Map showing Millville in Columbia County |
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| Coordinates: 41°07′22″N 76°31′40″W / 41.12278°N 76.52778°WCoordinates: 41°07′22″N 76°31′40″W / 41.12278°N 76.52778°W | ||
| Country | United States | |
| State | Pennsylvania | |
| County | Columbia | |
| Settled | 1770 | |
| Incorporated | 1892 | |
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| • Type | Borough Council | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 0.99 sq mi (2.56 km2) | |
| • Land | 0.98 sq mi (2.54 km2) | |
| • Water | 0.008 sq mi (0.02 km2) | |
| Elevation | 650 ft (200 m) | |
| Population (2010) | ||
| • Total | 948 | |
| • Density | 966/sq mi (373.0/km2) | |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) | |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) | |
| ZIP code | 17846 | |
| Area code(s) | 570 | |
| Website | www |
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Millville is a borough in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 948. It is part of the Bloomsburg–Berwick Micropolitan Statistical Area.
John Eves, a native of Ireland living in Mill Creek Hundred, Delaware, is thought to have been one of the white men to visit the Greenwood Valley and Little Fishing Creek area in 1770. (One account of this visit indicates that he purchased a sizable portion of the land he explored in the area from the Indians who had served as his guides on this trek.) Although he returned to Delaware after this initial visit, he returned the following year with his son Thomas and built a log cabin on the property. The entire Eves family arrived the next year, in 1772, and began tilling the fields adjacent to the cabin as soon as they could be cleared.
In 1774, the Eves family received a deed for their 1,203-acre (4.87 km2) property in the valley, the largest land holding at the time in what would later become Columbia County. Title for the land, originally obtained by William and Elizabeth McMean in 1769, was passed to Reuben Haines, and then to John Eves.
An Indian uprising, the Battle of Wyoming, in mid-summer of 1778, caused the Eves family to flee their home in the valley and take refuge at a near Washingtonville. Upon their return in 1785, they found their cabin burned and their fields overgrown, but immediately set about to recreate their homestead.
Millville Friends Meeting House, established in 1795
When the Eves family returned in the mid-1780s, they were determined to make the settlement permanent. They were accompanied or were soon followed by several other families, including Masters, Kisner, Battin, Parker, Lundy, Lemon, Oliver, and Rich. With 17 children and 104 grandchildren, John Eves looked after the building of homes for the family, a gristmill that was to stand for 100 years, and later a sawmill and several other essential structures.
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