The village of Eagleville was laid out in April 1853, by Simeon Gilbert and Joseph Hutchinson. The village was later named Jamestown and the Post Office was called Crooked Creek. Alfred Fisher, now (1946) eighty - nine years of age gives a little history of Jamestown village in the earlier days. He was five years old when the family moved to Jamestown, and he grew to manhood there, and says that when he was a boy it was a busy little village. He saw a carding mill running and the grist mill running every day and night, packing flour in flour in barrels and hauling it to Coldwater, Michigan. He also saw the cooper shop turning out barrels for the flour and a plaster mill in operation. There were three blacksmith shops, one wagon shop, three stores, two doctors, a hotel, tin shop, shoe shop, paint shop, wagon jack factory, sawmill, cider mill and post office. Now all is gone but one store and a garage.
The first school house in built here was a very rude building, the steps were made of boxes. Another school house was built and then the final one in 1891. The church was built in 1878. The many lakes in this vicinity made it a happy hunting grounds for the Indians in the early days. There was a tribe of Indians called the Pottawatomie that had their Indian camp east of the grist mill. They had their burying ground over on Whig's landing. Their Chief's name was Pokagon. The Indian's name for Lake George was Lake Kapakunee. John Nichols, who owned a large tract of land west of the village also had a stock of goods, which he traded to the Indians, whiskey being the staple.
Steuben Republican: May 14, 1924, January 17, 1945, October 9, 1946
