The History of Our Name

Around 1830, Miles Riggs traveled up the Black River and built a sawmill and flour mill at an Indian village called Cooksokie.  In 1850 Daniel Thompson purchased the flour mill from Riggs and later the sawmill.  It is Daniel Thompson who built the house located beside the mill.  Both buildings remain today.  When a Post Office was requested, government officials told Thompson that the village name would have to be changed.  Mr. Thompson decided to call it Queensborough after the last point of land he saw when sailing from Ireland.  Sections of the post office boxes remain in the mill today    

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