MILL GROVE

Mill Grove was
surveyed in March of 1835 and it sits in section 33 in the
northwest corner. The plat shows 21 lots, all but a couple are 60
feet wide. John Hallenbeck was the proprietor and few lots were
ever sold. No improvements of any note were made. With the
exception of a mill, nothing remains here in present day.

The above is the report regarding Mill Grove from "Owen County 1884"; now another perspective.

"Another town in the area was Mill Grove which had quite a few business and a mill at one time. The only thing I can remember there was a sanitarium run by a Dr. Grey, and I think it was for cancer patients. I may think it is for cancer patients because that it where Grandpa Jones had the cancer removed. It may have been for TB. All I can remember is a great big building which people called a The Sanitarium. It burned while I was in High School I think." (This last reference point dating 1941-1945).