Even in death, Moses and Aaron Wilcox stuck together.

They were twins, after all, and identical ones at that.

Maybe it's cliche to say this, but the fact was that they did everything together.

They went to the same school, started a business, married sisters,

and had the same number of children.

Even in their pastoral hometown of Killingworth, Connecticut,

their friends and neighbors,

the people who should have known them best,

were often stumped when playing who's who.

To think of one without the other was inconceivable. To other people, yes,

but even more so to themselves. As far as we know, Moses and Aaron weren't keen on separation

and independence. Quite the opposite, in fact, they were far more interested in doubling down

on their twindom, so much so that they decided they were going to create

a lasting legacy based on this very principle, their own twin utopia, smack in the northeastern

corner of Ohio.

The brothers Wilcox got some land, moved west, and found themselves in the sparsely populated

township of Millsville.

But to have a town, you must have people, so Moses and Aaron quickly got to work.

They began buying and parceling off the land for a steel, bringing in more and more settlers.

Eventually they would make Millsville an offer.

They'd give the town six free acres to be developed into a public square, plus a bit of

seed money to create the town's first school. And in return, all the town needed to do was change

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