Hope
Mills is a station on the W. N. Y. & P. R.R., near the
boundary line between Findley and Springfield. The settlement was made by
the Junkin family. The village has grown up
in consequence of the location of old-time mills at that point. They have
finally disappeared by fire. In the creek near the mill three persons have
been drowned. One of them was a lady school-teacher.
History
of Mercer County, 1888, page 528
Landowners
in and near Hope Mills, according to the 1873 Combination Atlas for
Mercer County: J. M. Pinkerton, M. Hughes,
P. Painter, A. Robison, W. Cummings, J. Howe,
Thomas Carpenter, J. Calvin, a grist mill and a school house.
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