Fowlers Mill, originally Fowler's Mills, began in 1829 when brothers Milo and Hiram Fowler purchased land on the Chagrin River in Munson Township, dug a millrace, and built a sawmill, followed by a gristmill in 1834 and land deeded in 1836 to William Lewis for a woolen mill. Opportunities from these mills made the community the commercial center of Munson Township, and from the 1830s into the twentieth century it expanded with churches, a post office, township hall, stores, a hotel, blacksmith shop, schools, and houses in Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne styles. On Mayfield Road, the Disciple Church was built in 1842, and east of the church the brick central school built in 1913 replaced earlier one-room schoolhouses. The cemetery contains burials dating from the 1830s, and the large classically detailed house Milo Fowler built next to the mill in 1840 stood out as a mansion in this frontier region. By the 1850s the sawmill and woolen mill had ceased operation, but the gristmill operated almost continuously for more than one hundred years before closing in 1966. Refurbished in 1986 by Rick and Billie Erickson, it operates today as the only mill standing in Geauga County and the only survivor of at least seventeen gristmills that once operated there. Rarely surviving with so much original fabric intact, this kind of rural nineteenth-century community center was once common in America, and the historic district was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.