Two Mill Towns, One St. Joseph River
Cedarville was platted in 1838 and Leo followed in 1849 -- originally as the Town of Hamilton -- both along the St. Joseph River in what had been Cedar Creek Township since its first settlement in 1833. By 1860 the combined settlements supported a sawmill, a grist mill, a shingle mill, and a wagon maker, all trades that depended on the river for power and transport.
Well Water, River Access, and Modern Supply Lines
A river-mill economy meant early Leo-Cedarville households relied on wells and the St. Joseph River itself long before municipal water reached the area, and pockets of that older infrastructure can still turn up in a plumbing inspection today. The two towns didn't even formally merge into one municipality -- specifically to avoid annexation by Fort Wayne -- until 1996, so how old a given system really is stays a genuinely open question on a lot of Leo-Cedarville properties.
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