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Welcome to
Delaware County, Iowa
History & Genealogy

Source:
The History of Delaware Co., IA
containing A History of the County, its Cities, towns, &c.,
A Biographical Directory of its Citizens, War Record of its Volunteers
in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics,
Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men,
History of the Northwest, History of Iowa,
Map of Delaware County, Constitution of the
United States, Miscellaneous
Matters, &c
- illustrated -
Publ. Chicago: Western Historical Company
Successors to H. F. Kett & Co.
1878

MILLHEIM
(Delaware Township)
p. 560

Almoral
Bremen Tp.
Coffin's Grove Tp.
Colesburg
 & Colony
Delaware
Delaware Center
Delhi
Earlville
Elk Tp.
Forestville
Greeley
Hartwick
Hazel Green
Hopkinton
Manchester
Manchester -561
Masonville
Millheim
Petersburg
Rockville
Sand Spring
Yankee Settlement
York

     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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