page_title: Bruceton Mills, West Virginia
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Bruceton Mills, West Virginia / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Looking east from Morgantown St. toward N Preston Highway in Bruceton Mills, WV.
context_page_description: Bruceton Mills is a town in Preston County, West Virginia, United States along Big Sandy Creek. The population was 85 at the 2010 census.
context_section_description: An early settler, John M. Hoffman, named this community for his stepfather, George Bruce, who claimed direct descendance from Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland. The post office existed in 1870. Bruceton Mills is the only place in the United States with this name.
caption: Looking east from Morgantown St. toward N Preston Highway in Bruceton Mills.
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