Editing Millville, Delaware (section)

==History==
The early settlement of the Millville area by [[Europe]]ans is poorly recorded, although it is known that the [[swamp]]y, [[marsh]]y nature of much of the land of eastern [[Baltimore Hundred]] in southeastern Delaware when the first Europeans arrived led them to establish [[plantations in the American South|plantation]]s on higher ground in the vicinity of what are now Millville, Ocean View, and [[Clarksville, Delaware|Clarksville]]. Millville itself grew up around a [[steam]]-powered [[sawmill]] operated by [[Captain (land)|Captain]] Peter Townshend in the late 19th century, becoming a center for [[lumber]], [[Agriculture|agricultural products]], and [[commercial fishing]].<ref name="Town of Millville: History"/>

For a time, the names "Dukestown" and "Dukesville" were considered for the town because of the prominence and number of members of the Dukes family who lived in the area. Eventually, the town was named Millville because of the [[sorghum]] mills, [[lumber mill]]s and [[grist mill]]s in the area.

Millville was incorporated in 1906. It had a population of 206 at the time,<ref>Meehan, p. 138</ref> and has grown in population only very slowly since,<ref name="Town of Millville: History"/> reaching only 259 by the 2000 [[census]]. However, the population more than doubled by the 2010 census, rising to 544 residents,{{citation needed|date=August 2016}} the highest in the recorded history of Millville.

Millville was considered the principal town of Baltimore Hundred, although this today lacks meaning because [[List of Delaware Hundreds|Delaware's hundreds]] lost their political functions long ago and now serve only as geographic points of reference.
{{US Census population
|1910= 193
|1920= 112
|1930= 193
|1940= 184
|1950= 270
|1960= 231
|1970= 224
|1980= 178
|1990= 206
|2000= 259
|2010= 544
|2020= 1825
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=http://www.census.gov/prod/www/decennial.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|access-date=June 4, 2016}}</ref>
}}