Millertown, located on Red Indian Lake, is probably the earliest Newfoundland logging town that is still a viable community in Newfoundland. Millertown was founded by and named after Lewis Miller, who began a sawmill operation in 1900. In 1901, 87 of 147 residents were foreigners who were mainly Swedish loggers hired to establish Miller's saw mill.

The over- mature forest produced poor quality lumber and the saw- mill failed. In 1903 Miller sold his mill to Harry J. Crowe and as a result, most of the Swedes left.

In 1905 the Harmsworth family of England purchased the operation from Mr. Crowe, shortly after establishing the Anglo-Newfoundland Development Co., to build a paper mill at Grand Falls. In 1909 Millertown became headquarters for one of the company's four woods divisions. By 1911 the population increased to 323. The population later decreased, but in 1990 Millertown was still an active logging centre with a population of about 164 people.