200 UNION COUNTY PAST AND PRESENT
{ plate——were Joseph Buckman, Robert Wimsett, the Scotts, the
. late Judge Strother Chapman’s father, who made the first open-
ing in the tract now owned by R. D. Willet, and the "Hites," or,
as the name was originally spelled, the "Huets"( see The Em of
A Settlement) .
Martin Lembert (Huets) Hite was an early settler and one of
his sons, Henry Hite, established the first store in 1850. Con-
structed of hewn logs, and one story high, it was used in later
years as a tenant tobacco barn by Charles J. O’Malley. Peter G.
Hite and Charles N. Bucklin set up a water-power sawmill on
Mason Creek in the same year; Peter G. Hite was also the first
man to have a brick kiln in that locality. The postoffice was
established in 1855.
Quite a few small houses were built along both sides of the
road and many people of the migratory class came and went.
Little by little the houses decayed and finally all traces of their
existence were obliterated.
Years later rebuilding began. At one time there were a hundred
inhabitants in the town, with a blacksmith shop, two gristmills,
a shingle mill, two stone quarries, a schoolhouse, and a photog-
raphers’ gallery. R. A. Griggs was contracting carpenter and
Dr. J. R. Seitz practiced medicine.
Lindle’s Mill
It was in 1864 that J. W. Lindle built a mill which had two
burrs, one for meal, the other for flour. On the road to what is A
now Calloway’s Mine it stood near the farm of W. W. Slaton,
about a half-mile from the present US 60.
Just back of the mill was the Mt. Pleasant Presbyterian Church
and the Mt. Pleasant School, built on part of the church ground.
A store room soon followed the mill, as did a blacksmith shop,
run by Jim Heady. Lindle also had a still, the house located on
the ditch in front of the home of J. Y. Simpson. There was then
no settlement at Sullivan. When the railroad came and made
Sullivan, that town drew nearly all of Lindle’s Mill to itself.
The mill has disappeared. Only the old graveyard near the
vanished church, and the old schoolhouse that is now a dwelling, _
are left.
Little Union
Little Union is on Highway 56 about three miles southeast of
Morganfield.