Summit Mills, Pennsylvania
Summit Mills is an unincorporated community in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States. The community is 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Meyersdale.
Postal history
The first postmaster in Summit Mills was Ephraim Miller, appointed November 24, 1852. Summit Mills had a post office through at least 1906, but was served by the post office in Meyersdale by 1909.
Religious history
Early settlers of Summit Mills, including the Yoder and Hostetler families, were Amish. A congregation of Church of the Brethren was organized in Summit Mills in the fall of 1883 and a church was built in 1884.
References
- ^ "Summit Mills". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ Cushing, Marshall Henry (1892). "The Oldest Postmaster". The Story of Our Post Office: The Greatest Government Department in All Its Phases. Boston: A. M. Thayer & Company. p. 458.
- ^ United States Official Postal Guide. Albany, New York: J. B. Lyon. January 1906. p. 498.
- ^ "Post Offices Discontinued on Account of Rural Delivery". United States Official Postal Guide. Albany, New York: J. B. Lyon. July 1909. p. 715.
- ^ Schneck, David A. "Settlement in Somerset County". The Mennonite Quarterly Review. 28–29: 290.
- ^ Holsinger, Henry R. (1901). "Brethren Church - Congregational". Holsinger's History of the Tunkers and the Brethren Church. Oakland, California: Pacific Press. pp. 633–634. Retrieved July 13, 2020.
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