Category: Site

Historical Dates: 1752

Threat Level: Low

Location: Lincoln Rd at Northwest Fork of Goose Creek

Site of the first mill built in 1752 on the Northwest Fork of Goose Creek -- for which the community and Friends’ meetings of Goose Creek were named -- Circleville itself was named by Quaker postmaster Thomas Brown in 1836 for the two semi-circle curves made by the old Lincoln-North Fork road as it wound its way down a 456-foot-high hill and across Goose Creek.  Pennsylvania Quaker Joseph West, a stone mason and brother of the famous American/British artist Benjamin West, built a stone bank barn and a log house here around 1750.  The barn and a portion of the house still stand on what is now Circleville Farm.

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Site of the first mill built in 1752 on the Northwest Fork of Goose Creek -- for which the community and Friends’ meetings of Goose Creek were named -- Circleville itself was named by Quaker postmaster Thomas Brown in 1836 for the two semi-circle curves made by the old Lincoln-North Fork road as it wound its way down a 456-foot-high hill and across Goose Creek.  Pennsylvania Quaker Joseph West, a stone mason and brother of the famous American/British artist Benjamin West, built a stone bank barn and a log house here around 1750.  The barn and a portion of the house still stand on what is now Circleville Farm.