Yeagertown, PA

Yeagertown is a census-designated place in Derry Township, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, in the Kishacoquillas Creek valley below Jack's Mountain. The place took its name from Jacob Yeager, who arrived in 1842, purchased fifty acres and a mill, and set the settlement's future around water-powered work. A larger Yeager mill was built in 1857. By 1879, Yeagertown had two stores, a church, two schools, and the mill that gave the community its reason for being. The business expanded into lumber and coal, and a power plant on the mill property generated electricity for the village by 1908.

The mill's flour traveled far beyond the valley: the Yeager family sold Alfarata and Juniata's Queen flour to hotels across the United States and in South America. Milling continued in changing forms until the doors closed in 1963, leaving the building as the clearest physical record of Yeagertown's industrial past. Today the CDP remains part of Derry Township, with Kish Creek and the Yeagertown mill site at the center of its local map; the Derry Township Veterans Memorial Bridge crosses Kish Creek nearby. Yeagertown is a place where one family mill shaped streets, schools, electricity, and a name that outlasted the business.