unincorporated community
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located along
Perdido Bay
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in
Escambia County, Florida
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, United States.
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. One of the first recorded sawmills was built in 1868 and could produce up to 35,000 feet of lumber per day. Some of the sawmills that operated in Millview included the Wright Mill, Robinson Mill, Seminole Mill, McLane Mill, New Mill and the Perdido Bay Lumber Company Mill. In 1880, the annual production of all mills in Millview was 30-40 million board feet. The Perdido Bay Lumber Company mill was the largest mill in Millview, measuring 175 feet x 55 feet. The mill contained one engine, a gang saw, two circular saws, and six boilers. The Southern States Lumber Company purchased much of the land in Millview after the
Civil War
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and donated land for a church and school.
The Pensacola and Perdido Railroad was a 9-mile railroad that began hauling lumber from Millview to
Pensacola Bay
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The bay, an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, is located in Escambia County and Santa Rosa County, adjacent to the city of Pensacol ...
Muscogee
The Muscogee, also known as the Mvskoke, Muscogee Creek, and the Muscogee Creek Confederacy ( in the Muscogee language), are a group of related indigenous (Native American) peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands In February 1913, McLauglin incorporated the Pensacola, Mobile, and New Orleans Railway, which absorbed the Pensacola, Alabama, and Tennessee and Pensacola and Perdido Railroads.
J. B. Johnson and George Robinson both owned sawmills and general stores in Millview and printed their own
scrip
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for use in their stores.
A post office operated under the name Millview from 1872 to 1935.
Gallery
File:GAL_Engine_at_Millview.jpg, German American Lumber Company engine number 7 at Millview
File:Mills_at_Millview_in_1884.jpg,
Sanborn map
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of lumber mills at Millview in 1884
File:Robinson_Lumber_Company_Gang_Mill_at_Millview.jpg, Sanborn map of Robinson Lumber Company's Gang Mill
File:Seminole_Mill_at_Millview.jpg, Sanborn map of Seminole Mill