A millwright named Hauze came from Gardens Grove and with the help of the settlers he cleared the timber and built a mill. Stutzman sent to St. Louis for the burrs. This mill was always known as "Stutzman's Mill."
It cost the people here twenty-five cents to send a letter to the Eastern part of the United States. Mail for them came up the Missouri river by steamboat to Knoxville (Council Bluffs) and was left at Stutzman's store until a neighbor would bring it out.
There people held regular meetings. Elder Calvin A. Beebe was the minister. His first sermon was on this text, "There is a cry from Macedonia, come over and help us." After this
first sermon a petition was prepared and sent to Washington, D. C., asking for a post office to be
established. At this time the people gave the settlement the name of Macedonia. The post office was established in 1849 and C. A. Beebe was the first postmaster.
The first sttlers chose land which had on it plenty of timber or water power or both.
When the government survey was completed in 1851 and the land was formally thrown open by the government in 1853, Tuttle filed a claim for the land on which the mill stood and Stutzman filed on the eighty acres north of him. It is supposed that Graybill deeded his original claim to the water rights to Stutzman.
The settlers from 1853 to 1858 included Wm. Hinman, mcClure Hinman, W.W. Wilson,
Ezra Baker, A. T. Shinn, Wm. Price, J.Z. Losh, John Agler, T.J. Ring, George Cotton, Peter Frain and
Charles Burkholder.
The first school election was held in 1858 and the following directors were chosen:
A. T. Shinn, President, Ezra Baker and Charles Burkholder. Jas. B. Rue was the County Superintendant
of Schools and Joe Lyman was the first teacher. The log cabin built by Graybill was used for a school house. Mr. Lyman was paid twenty dollars a month and "boarded 'round."
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