The first entry of land in this district was made March 12, 1785. The first abode of civilization in this wilderness was a rude log cabin, built more than one hundred years ago. Cunningham Creek empties into Bingamon, and Jones Run empties into Ten-Mile at Lumberport. There are two mills doing a good business in Eagle district, on Ten-Mile. The land of the district is very hilly, but remarkably fertile, producing blue grass in abundance.
Limestone is found, and there is a good ten-foot vein of coal.
The timber is the best quality of tough white oak. The first grist mill of the district was built about 1800 by Benjamin Robinson , at the present site of lumberport. It was a stone mill, and was washed out in 1820. The earliest and most primitive milling was done by Edward and Thomas Cunningham , who, about 1785, settled a short distance from the mouth of Cunninghams Run. They put in a dam to work a piston over a beam that had an iron wedge in the end.