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Welcome to Peru Mills ...

Peru Mills is located in Juniata County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Peru Mills, you might consider that their post office opened in 1850.

A typical abbreviation for Peru Mills: Peru Mls. (or less commonly used: Peru Mlls.)

Peru Mills is 790 feet [241 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Peru Mills lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Peru Mills: 717 & 223<3>

Communities near Peru Mills ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Peru Mills.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Peru Mills. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Peru Mills.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Peru Mills. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Peru Mills.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Peru Mills. See our Newspapers Page for Peru Mills.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Peru Mills ...

Looking for more information about Peru Mills? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Peru Mills, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Peru Mills.

Adding Peru Mills to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Peru Mills in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Peru Mills was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Peru Mills post office opened in 1850. The Peru Mills post office closed in 1906.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Peru Mills.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Pennsylvania's counties, including Juniata, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Peru Mills - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 717 code has been Overlayed with the 223 area code. New phone numbers in the Peru Mills area will be assigned with one of these codes: 717 or 223. As a result, placing a call in the Peru Mills area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/