Old Mill Road/Mill Street began as an original trail used by early Indians and settlers and took its name from the many early corn, flour, and woolen mills along Spring Creek. It formed part of the first Old Missouri Road before 1830 to 1858, until Butterfield created the present Old Missouri Road to the east in 1858, bypassing the town of Shiloh (Springdale). It became the first government Post Route Road in 1836, served as part of the Cherokee Trail of Tears on March 20, 1839, with Dr. Wm. I. Morrow as wagonmaster, and functioned as a military road during the Civil War from 1861 to 1864. It was also part of the Old Wire-Telegraph Road, which turned west on Johnson St., south on Pleasant St. to 68W, then continued south on the Johnson Road, and carried the first message on July 4, 1860 as part of the Holcombe Road.