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Maysville is
a little village in the center of [West Salem] township, and
contains a store and cheese factory, owned by
E. O. Brown, and also a blacksmith
shop. The West Salem Baptist Church is a part of the village,
and a good brick school-house furnishes full educational advantages for
the youth of the vicinity. The first grist-mill in the
township was built, in 1829 by, at this point by
John Gravat. The water-power
was furnished by Big Run, which flows through Maysville. In
1846 Thomas McMahan erected a sawmill on the
run, and two years afterward he built a steam grist-mill near
the village. He operated this about
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twenty years and then sold it to Philip
Schuster,
who ran it until it was burned down. In 1873 John
Mussell
built a cheese- factory at Maysville, which was burned, and in 1875 Morford
& Clark rebuilt it. This, too, was
finally burned, and the present [1888] one was then erected by J.
W. Woods.
A post-office was established in Maysville February 16, 1852 with George
E. Hasenplug
as postmaster. It was discontinued November 25,
1872.
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From the History of
Mercer
County, 1888, p. 610
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