3,000 graves, including a Revolutionary War veteran buried on the north side. There is a small chapel on the south side. Local businesses include the Last Chance Saloon, Millington Auto, and Fox Paintball. The village has its own post office and park. The park sits on land that once surrounded the operating school. Now this building is used as the town hall where town meetings take place along with other public events. In the past few years, Millington has expanded across the Fox River. The Belle Rive subdivision contains several homes. The town used to have a theme song that would be sung in elementary school: "The potatoes they grow small in Millington. The potatoes they grow small in Millington. The potatoes they grow small and we pick them in the fall. Oh, the potatoes they grow small in Millington." Samuel’s brother, Jesse Jackson, came from Pennsylvania for a visit and was so pleased with the location that he bought out Markley’s interest and moved his family here in 1836. His was the first frame house in Millington. That year the sawmill was completed and put into operation and the little community began to grow. It is said that for a decade the sawmill could scarcely keep up with the orders; sometimes being as much as six months behind, so great was the demand for building materials. In 1837 Fletcher Misner moved down from Newark and started a blacksmith shop. He was the perfect example of the “Village Blacksmith” -- a mighty man was he and he could do anything with tools, from shaping plows to building beautiful walnut furniture. Millington grapevine says that he designed the first steel plow but failed to patent it and someone else got the credit. It is known that he experimented first with cast iron plows which worked when new but would not scour and three years later made the first wrought iron scouring plow. Wagons and all sorts of farm implements were turned out in his shop. The first shop was a small two-story building and Iver Nelson, father of Mrs. O.H. Anfinsen, worked on the second floor as a painter of the wooden wheels and wagons. He did the fancy lettering and scrollwork, also. It is said that the flood of 1857 came into those upstairs windows where he was at work. After a few years the business outgrew the first small