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Millheim is a borough in Centre County, part of the State College metropolitan area, that was settled in 1797 and incorporated as a borough in 1879.

Millheim's name comes from the German 'Mill Heim' - home of the mills - after the mills Jacob Hubler built on Elk Creek, and the old mill raceway still flows through the downtown.

For more than 150 years Millheim was the industrial center of Penns Valley.

The Millheim Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, includes 176 contributing buildings.

In 1794 the settlement built two schools side by side in spirit - one for German-speaking children and one for English-speaking children.

Millheim's Municipal Theatre opened in 1917 and became a longtime center of community life in Penns Valley.

The 2020 census counted 831 residents in Millheim, and the 2010 census had counted 904 people living in 377 households.

The borough covers 1.33 square miles, all of it land, along Elk Creek in eastern Centre County.

Millheim is served by the Penns Valley Area School District, which was formed in the 1950s and opened its junior/senior high school on Route 45 in 1956.