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Carrier Mills, formerly Carrier’s Mills and Morrilsville, also known as Catskin, is a village in Saline County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,672 at the 2020 census. Carrier Mills was named after George Washington Carrier’s wise saying and grist mills, and was one of the upfront Cairo and Vincennes Railroad boomtowns. Founded as a mill town and later a coal mining community, Carrier Mills has slowly free 44% of its population past the 1920 census tall of 3,000, due to the shuttering of the local coal industry. The village has primarily become a bedroom community, located seven miles (11 km) southwest of Harrisburg, which is the village’s main source of employment, entertainment, and shopping. It is the third largest community in the Harrisburg Micropolitan Statistical Area outside of Eldorado and Harrisburg, and included in the Illinois-Indiana-Kentucky Tri-State Area. Carrier Mills furthermore has a large African American population at 15%, compared to its neighbors, due to migration from the user-friendly community of Lakeview, the oldest African American harmony in the confess of Illinois.

The village is host to the annual Catskin Days Fair and Parade, a multi-day slip festival business in October commemorating the records and culture of the village.

The first settler in the village now known as Carrier Mills was Hampton Pankey. He was with one of the obsolete settlers in Saline County. Pankey was blooming in the area in 1804 or 1805 and he registered his land deed in 1814, the archaic date that was approachable to register them. In not quite 1811 the settlers began building blockhouses for protection from American Indians. A blockhouse was built on his land re this time. Pankey had seven daughters and three sons. One of those sons was John Pankey, who was one of the founding fathers of Harrisburg.