Millview, Florida

Millview is an unincorporated community located along Perdido Bay in Escambia County, Florida, United States.

Millview, Florida
Unincorporated community
Millview
Location within the state of Florida
Coordinates: 30°25′05″N 87°21′22″W
Country United States
State Florida
County Escambia
Elevation
7 ft (2 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code
32506
GNIS feature ID286940[1]

History

Millview may have been settled as early as 1783. Millview's history has been closely tied to that of the lumber industry, and the community was once home to as many as six different lumber mills and had a population of 3,000 residents.[2] One of the first recorded sawmills was built in 1868 and could produce up to 35,000 feet of lumber per day.[3] Some of the sawmills that operated in Millview included the Wright Mill,[4] Robinson Mill, Seminole Mill,[5] McLane Mill, New Mill and the Perdido Bay Lumber Company Mill.[3] The Southern States Lumber Company purchased much of the land in Millview after the Civil War and donated land for a church and school.[2]

The Pensacola and Perdido Railroad was a 9-mile railroad that began hauling lumber from Millview to Pensacola Bay in 1874. In 1893, Henry McLaughlin extended the Pensacola, Alabama, and Tennessee Railroad from Millview to Muscogee.[6] In February 1913, McLauglin incorporated the Pensacola, Mobile, and New Orleans Railway, which absorbed the Pensacola, Alabama, and Tennessee and Pensacola and Perdido Railroads.[7]

J. B. Johnson and George Robinson both owned sawmills and general stores in Millview and printed their own scrip for use in their stores.[8]

A post office operated under the name Millview from 1872 to 1935.[9]

References
  1. "Millview". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  2. "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: The Alger-Sullivan Lumber Company Residential Historic District". United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
  3. Brackett, John Matthew. ""The Naples of America": Pensacola during the Civil War and Reconstruction" (PDF). Florida State University Libraries. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
  4. Campbell, Richard. "Historical sketches of colonial Florida" (PDF). George A Smathers Libraries. University of Florida. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
  5. "Sheet 0009, Pensacola 1897 including Warrington, Woolsey and Mills at Millview, Florida". Historic Map Works. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
  6. Gregg Turner (2003). A Short History of Florida Railroads. Arcadia Publishing. p. 40, 87. ISBN 978-0-7385-2421-4.
  7. Moody's Manual of Investments: American and Foreign: Transportation. Moody's Investors Service. 1918. p. 1044.
  8. "Millview". Hometown Currency. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
  9. "Escambia County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 28 May 2020.


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