Millheim was surveyed by Mr. R. Stewart July 21, 1858; John and Maria Kaltenbach, proprietors. Its legal location is on the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of Section 3, Township 89, Range 5 (Delaware). Mr. Kaltenbach gave the new town the name of his birth-place in Baden, Germany.  Mr. K. built a saw-mill in 1853, on Honey Creek, which flows through the town site.  Mr. Sherman built the first house in the place, keeping grocery for a while, but left in 1858.  Mr. Kaltenbach built a flouring-mill in 1864, but owing to the want of means was unable to get a water wheel of sufficient power for his business.  The mill would only grind about four bushels an hour, but Mr. Kaltenbach says the yield of flonr was greater to the bushel than at neighboring mills.  He disposed of the mill to a Mr. Olmstead, who sold it to Mr. Clugston.  It is now owned by T. Holmes.  A log church building was erected at Millheim by the citizens of that vicinity in 1868, in which meetings were held by Rev. Mr. Jenkins, of Manchester, and Rev. Mr. Long of Pennsylvania, the latter a Presbyterian. Rev. Mr. Whiting, of Manchester, holds services at Millheim, occasionally, the present Spring.  A glove and mitten factory, with a
tannery in connection, was started by Chester Burgess six years ago, but the business did not prove remunerative, and he gave it up three years after.

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