The Millville, Reilly and Milton Turnpike brought prosperity to the village later renamed Bunker Hill, where School House No. 10 stood from 1849 to 1857, clothing manufacturing had become the major business by 1860, a Post Office was established in 1852, and a Universalist church was dedicated in 1855. During the Civil War, Peace Democrats known as Copperheads were active in the area, Ohio Congressman Clarence Vallandingham campaigned here in 1860, and a traditional Democratic Party pole raising was held here in 1863. In the 19th century, the community included coopers, cobblers, blacksmiths, wagon shops, saddlers, a sorghum mill, a huckster, a photographer, a clothes pin factory, a band, a music teacher, and a baseball team. The Post Office closed in 1906, and by 1912 the church had closed. In nearby Dog Town, Thomas Burk Sr. purchased a quarter section of federal land in 1804, a school house was erected there in 1809, and that same year a road was built on Indian Creek west of the site. Obadiah Welliver opened a tavern on his purchase in 1812. Burk sold his grist mill in 1818, and the hamlet around it is thought to have been called Dogtown because of a vicious dogfight there. In 1825, Reily Post Office was established at Welliver’s Tavern, and that year Elias Sayres built a woolen mill with textile production machinery near the sawmill. Elias Jackson "Lucky" Baldwin, later founder of Santa Anita Racetrack near Los Angeles, was born here.