This township,
which embodies Township 3 south, Range 13, east, was under the civil
jurisdiction of Crawford County before the erection of Wyandot,
though it was within the reservation. The township assumed its
present dimensions in 1845, the sale of the reserve taking place in
1843. It is bounded on the north by Salem Township, on the
east by Pitt and Crane Townships, on the south of Salem Township, on
the east by Jackson. The Wyandot Reservation line in Mifflin
ran from the north, parallel with and about a mile and a quarter
from the western boundary line of the township, through Sections 5,
8, 17, 20 and 29, as far as Tymochtee Creek in Section 32, thence
eastward, parallel with and about three -quarters of a mile from the
southern boundary of the township through Sections 32, 33, 34, 35,
and 36.
The topography of this township and general quality of
the soil are much in common with the surrounding townships, and its
productiveness in crops and farm stock is in nowise behind corn,
wheat, grass and all root hogs, all fully testifying to the
prosperity of the husbandmen. More clearing, perhaps, of the
timber may have been effected than can be said of some of the
neighboring townships, through in the northern part of growth is
somewhat heavier.
The township is well favored in being possessed of a
multitude of streams, brooks, and rivulets, which through many a
field and fallow fret their mossy banks, as, babbling onward on
their way, in trilling cadences, like "the swell of some sweet
tune," they never ceasing seem to sing:"For men
may come and men may go
But I go on for ever."
The main stream of all is
Tymochtee Creek which enters the township from Marseilles on the
farm of H. and P. Haner, in Section 32, and, after describing some
eccentric convolutions, one time swift, another time slow, as it
meanders through Sections 32, 31, 32 again, 29, 28, 29 again, 28
again, 21, 16, 21 again, 22, 15, 16, 15 again, 10, 9, 10 again, 3,
4, and 3 again, it bids adieu to Mifflin and hastens away to mingle
with the Sandusky River. Of the many tributaries that purvey
to the channel of the Tymochtee in this township, Warpole Run is the
chief, connecting with it from the southeast in the northwest
quarter of Section 10, and the several veins that contribute toward
its existence have their sources in Sections 34, 26 and 25
respectively, and in Pitt Township, from which latter, two streams,
one named St. James' Run, emanate. Sugar Run rises in Section
17, flows nearly due north and unites with the Tymochtee in the
extreme west of Section 3. Oak Run has its birth in Jackson
Township, one arm entering Mifflin in Section 18, and another in
Section 19. A small re-enforcement meets Oak Run just as it is
about leaving Mifflin for Salem Township in the northwest
corner of Section 4. Besides these tributaries mentioned,
there are some seven or eight streamlets, all adding their
individual modest modicum.
ROADS, ETC.
FIRST SETTLEMENTS.
OWNERS OF REAL ESTATE.
OWNERS OF PERSONAL ESTATE.
SCHOOLS.
The first school
held in the township was in the traditional primitive "temple of
learning," located in this case on the land of Martin Dickens,
two miles east of Brownstown. Among the early teachers may be
mentioned William Harrison, Benjamin Olney, William Jones and
Nanch M. Swartz. The number of school buildings now in
Mifflin is eleven, established one in each of Sections 1, 4, 6, (in
the village of Kirby) 7, 17, 15, 21, 23, 25, 30 adn 34.
CHURCHES, ETC.
OFFICIAL.
MISCELLANEOUS.
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