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Kearsarge, located near the Millcreek Mall, was originally called Walnut Creek.

The village, founded in 1796, boasted the county's first frame home and barn.

Renamed Kearsarge in honor of the USS Kearsarge, the village housed a multi-room school and thriving businesses including the Biebel Brothers general store.

While the Kearsarge Post Office closed in 1900, the name lives on.

The area near the Millcreek Mall still known locally as Kearsarge was a thriving town even before Erie.

"They built Erie north of us" was a favorite quip of 19th-century Kearsarge entrepreneur George Biebel, his granddaughter, Marian Weaver, told the Erie Times-News in 1976.

Originally called Walnut Creek, Kearsarge generally extended from the mall north to what today is West Grandview Bo

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