Millersburg Township, Mercer County, Illinois

Millersburg Township
—  Township  —
Location in Mercer County
Mercer County's location in Illinois
Country	United States
State	Illinois
County	Mercer
Established	November 8, 1853
Government
- Supervisor
Area
- Total	36.3 sq mi (94.01 km2)
- Land	36.3 sq mi (94.01 km2)
- Water	0.0 sq mi (0.0 km2)  0.0%
Population (2000)
- Total	777
Time zone	CST (UTC-6)
- Summer (DST)	CDT (UTC-5)

Millersburg Township is located in Mercer County, Illinois. The population was 777 at the 2000 census.

Millersburg is named after George Abraham Miller, a Primitive Baptist who, with several families, settled in Mercer County, Illinois on the Edwards River in 1834. These families traveled from Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Indiana for the purpose of expanding the church in to the area. The congregation was known as the Edwards River Church of Regular Baptists.^[1] The Church was disbanded in 1847, and the last of the Original settlers Isaac Miller, left for Oregon in 1851.

References

1. ^ History of Mercer County, E. H. Hill & Co., Publishers, Chicago, Illinois, 1882

External links

• US Census
• City-data.com
• Illinois State Archives
• Miller Family Genealogy and history
• Primitive Baptist Churches in Mercer County, Illinois (The founding of Millersburg)

Coordinates: 41°11′56″N 90°50′24″W / 41.19889°N 90.84°W / 41.19889; -90.84