Millville, New Jersey

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Local Information for Millville, NJ

Latitude: 39.390765 -- Longitude: -75.037641

Other Area Cities:   Millville  Bridgeton  Vineland 

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Millville’s history goes back to the early 1700s. A sawmill was believed to have existed at Leaming’s Mill at around 1720. The area also had a public road, a boat landing, and even a bridge-like structure. From this time until the late 1700s, only a few residents lived in this area. In 1776, Joseph Smith and Henry Drinker purchased 24,000 acres of land known as the Union Mills Tract. They also formed the Union Estates Company and built lumber mills along the Maurice River and established a dam to power these new mills. A new dam was not built until the 1860s. Even with the Union Estates Company and the business that it had in the area, Millville had not grown to a very large size. -- Source: Wikipedia.com