It has had more names than any other village or town in the entire county.
A thick forest with Maple trees. First owner was Jacob Buttonburg.
Alexander Stewart purchased it in 1821, it had a couple houses & it became known as Stumptown. Waterpower saw mill was built & trees were converted into lumber.
Captain James Young (War of 1812) in 1830 traveled to the orient and brought home Shanghai China. For lack of a better name was called, Shanghai. The village had six houses at this time.
It became the central ferry point for MichaelMyers and others. Then in 1852 the C. & .P. R.R. was completed. It was renamed OliveCity in honor of Lewis K. McCoy’s daug.
In 1856 it changed to McCoy’s Station.
In 1858 elections it was known as the Shanghai precinct, in Olive City, at McCoy’s Station.
A sewer line was built in 1885 called, Empire Sewer Pipe Co. City was dropped and in 1897 the hamlet became an incorporated village named, EMPIRE.
