The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog

The then du Pont House, under tenancy of the Banks Family, c. 1860's (courtesy Steve Larrimore) One of the most unique properties in Mil...

The Montgomery House When I first started getting interested in local history one of the first questions I had, as I looked at the 1868 Beer...

The Tatnall Gazebo Recently I had the pleasure of visiting the beautiful grounds of the Tatnall School, located on Barley  Mill Road. There...

The c. 1908 Ferris Eastburn House In doing historical research, one of the most frustrating (at times) and exhilarating (at others) things I...

Map of the upper mills of Shellpot Creek In the last post we set the stage for the earliest mills built along Brandywine Hundred's Shel...

Etching of the Webster Mill on Shellpot Creek by Robert Shaw, 1904 For obvious reasons we spend most of our time on this site in Mill Creek ...

McKee-Johnston-Stephenson Farm - 1952, with modern streets overlaid In the last post , we traced the history of the southern portion of the ...

The Sanders-McFarlin House, aka The Jesus House (since 1975) It seems to be a recent trend here that I start researching a property that app...