Leechs Corners 

Leech’s Corners.—John Leech built a store about 1841, at Leech’s Corners, and was thus the first merchant at that point. A post-office had been established at the same place early in Jackson’s administration, in which William Leech was commissioned postmaster, but it was subsequently removed, as Leech was appointed justice of the peace, and the two positions were incompatible in the same individual. The mail was then carried on horseback, from Greenville to Franklin, twice a week, and the receipts of the office were less than three dollars per year. At the present time the Corners is the site of a church, school-house, grist-mill, and saw-mill, a post-office, two blacksmith-shops, two wagon-shops, and a grocery.

Cheese-factory.--In 1873, a building, 40 x 50 feet in dimensions, was erected near Leech’s Corners, by Brickenridge & Harper, as a cheese-factory, which has received the general patronage of the surrounding neighborhood. From five to eight cheeses of the ordinary size, are made daily, and they are manufactured for the patrons, at one dollar and eighty-five cents per hundred-weight. The manufacturer states that the returns have been profitable.  

History of Mercer County, 1877, page 83  

Landowners map of Leechs Corners from the 1873 Atlas