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History · Millhousen
Millhousen’s history is mostly unwritten
The public archives hold no old photos of Millhousen yet. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
What stands out about Millhousen’s past Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
★ What stands out · Help out Start Millhousen’s collection The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Millhousen’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos 00s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
The story How Millhousen came to be From Wikipedia’s history of Millhousen.
Read it all → Millhousen was platted in 1858, having been settled by a colony of German Catholics. It was named for a town of the same name in Germany.
Millhousen is perhaps best known for being the home of the Immaculate Conception Church, one of only four Roman Catholic churches in Decatur County.
Text from Wikipedia , licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 .
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What used to stand where something else is now in Millhousen? → Who remembers Millhousen in the 1950s? → A family story from old Millhousen → Does anyone have photos of Millhousen from the 1990s? →
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