tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945719747276028760.post6830719730421297926..comments2024-03-26T10:17:51.566-04:00Comments on The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog: An Answer to the Corner Ketch Mystery?Scott Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10850758840846585533noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945719747276028760.post-6421838299408889832022-04-19T19:31:37.023-04:002022-04-19T19:31:37.023-04:00Multiple Corner Ketch names to me would mean, wher...Multiple Corner Ketch names to me would mean, where people came to catch a ride.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16643869751886254721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945719747276028760.post-24592730993839889712021-08-14T07:10:56.819-04:002021-08-14T07:10:56.819-04:00Would a Catch or Ketch in this case...just be a &#...Would a Catch or Ketch in this case...just be a 'gathering' place. Considering the junction of roads, commerce and travel in that area. A Corner C(K)atch if you will. Seems more plausible than hearsay an 'old wives tails'.Dennis Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06769053520929525070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945719747276028760.post-35478422581895346252015-02-03T17:54:23.097-05:002015-02-03T17:54:23.097-05:00Two responses I've seen in another thread rega...Two responses I've seen in another thread regarding this topic, similar to what people have state: <br />"there used to be a "road house" called "The Corners" there that preyed on travelers... hence they were warned, "Be careful, they'll catch you at "The Corners" - at least that is what Francis Cooch wrote in his book "The Little Known History of Newark Delaware and its Environs"<br />And:<br />Regarding the large rock that juts out into white clay creek on Creek Rd(which used to connect to corner ketch road)<br />"I remember the large rock landing that extended into the creek, and had a steel eye bolt secured in it. Any theories what that was for? I've heard talk that the name Corner Ketch came from boats tying up there"<br />I didn't know many boats traveled the creek, way before the damns, I didn't never it was ever deep enough in parts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945719747276028760.post-45240108344163651122015-01-28T15:47:10.934-05:002015-01-28T15:47:10.934-05:00I keep meaning to come back to this topic. I have ...I keep meaning to come back to this topic. I have a contact I need to get in touch with who has more info about the area. I remember seeing photos (from Hagley, I think) taken right after the lodge fire. I'll have to find them again.Scott Palmernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945719747276028760.post-71264760899173920402015-01-28T15:44:03.538-05:002015-01-28T15:44:03.538-05:00Ralph -- Yes, the hotel at Corner Ketch was defini...Ralph -- Yes, the hotel at Corner Ketch was definitely an early stage coach stop. Neat that the old concrete is still under there.<br /><br />The Pomery and Newark RR's Thompson Station was just south of Chambers Rock Road. It was apparently just a freight station. 1881 map shows Joel Thompson's nearby house as the PO.Scott Palmernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945719747276028760.post-34693496860405220752015-01-27T20:49:41.653-05:002015-01-27T20:49:41.653-05:00Scott this is ralph c I have been told that stage ...Scott this is ralph c I have been told that stage coaches stopped at the hotel & taveren and road was concreted well before it was blactop this I know for I have seen the concrete when deldot made some repairs. And that on thompson staion rd there was a railroad depot where farmers would shovel lime off he train on to horse. Drawn wagons and motor trucks to be used on their farms all so the generalstore also served as the postofficeralph cnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945719747276028760.post-41400518856301218102015-01-27T16:29:58.435-05:002015-01-27T16:29:58.435-05:00Scott where the was to have stood you can see remi...Scott where the was to have stood you can see remits of a stone foundtion and the taveren was said to have stood on same properity on the doe run road side and where the black smith. Shop was there wasa harness & shoe repair shop and on site where the union grange now stands was the redmens hall burned to the ground in the early 1900's thank u for the info u where able to shareralph cnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945719747276028760.post-50423396825080612832015-01-27T13:52:58.457-05:002015-01-27T13:52:58.457-05:00Scottt. My grand father purchased the propeterory ...Scottt. My grand father purchased the propeterory where. The hotle was have stood ihave heard there was. A. Genreal store and black smith shop in the same area Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945719747276028760.post-67976338422579600792015-01-16T12:01:08.441-05:002015-01-16T12:01:08.441-05:00I have some old articles I wrote on this and I'...I have some old articles I wrote on this and I'll try to find them. There was another "Corner Ketch" in Pennsylvania, northwest if I recall correctly, of where Rt 322 meets Rt 30. My conclusion some years ago about the Corner Ketch in Mill Creek Hundred, was that the simplest explanation would be that it referred to the stagecoach stop located there - one would go there to "ketch the stagecoach" .<br />The 1930's Francis Cooch book "History of Newark, Delaware and its Environs" mentioned the possibility of the inn being the Corner Kedge, as well as the "catch ye at the corners" theory.Karl Voigtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945719747276028760.post-24534737782930676582014-03-27T07:33:44.434-04:002014-03-27T07:33:44.434-04:00I lived at Corner Ketch and Hopewell Rds outside D...I lived at Corner Ketch and Hopewell Rds outside Downingtown--the house with the pump -- in the early eighties. The real name of that road is Corner Ketch-Lyndell Rd. It has been shortened in the last 20 years to just Corner Ketch Rd. It is a point to point rd that runs between Rt 322 and Rt 282. There is one cross road at Hopewell Rd and one 'T' intersection at Jeffrries Rd...My point being that there are no multi-point intersections. I have often wondered if the name of the road was carried forward from some other location. The rt 282 terminus is in Lyndell, so one could conclude that the Rt 322 intersection is Corner Ketch. At 322 there is an offset crossroad with Osbourne Road, So exiting Corner Ketch Rd to Osbourne you need to make a left and a quick right. .maybe that quick turn is the 'Catch'Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04526595256197451052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945719747276028760.post-26788960767131256142012-11-07T16:36:23.446-05:002012-11-07T16:36:23.446-05:00I have several responses to this. First, I did Goo...I have several responses to this. First, I did Google it, and except for a farm in NC the only other Corner Ketchs I could find were nearby, in PA. There is one just north of Downingtown, and a road near Strasburg. There was also a village formerly called Corner Ketch near Bethel, near Foulk Road just over the state line. There is no concrete explanation for the names, except that the one near Bethel, like the one here in MCH, was a point were several roads came together. The guess there was that travellers would get caught at the corners, meaning confused by the roads. Corner Catch became Corner Ketch.<br /><br />Considering the proximity of these three instances, its plausible that the residents could all have used the same idioms, leading to the same name in different places. Although the tavern explanation is the one I personally "want" to be right, this one is at least equally possible, if not more so.<br /><br />The last thing I'd say is that if there ARE Corner Ketchs in "every state" that I'm just not seeing (could be possible), then what are the explanations for the names there? If there's lots of them, somebody somewhere must have a definitive answer. Until I hear one, I'll just keep an open mind.Scott Pnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945719747276028760.post-15832287353340568812012-11-02T08:02:20.142-04:002012-11-02T08:02:20.142-04:00I disagree... There are way too numerous "Co...I disagree... There are way too numerous "Corner Ketch" roads in the USA for this explanation. Just Google :Corner Ketch" to see what I mean. Evrey state has several roads with this name... sorry :-(Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945719747276028760.post-79295769035783435072011-04-01T18:37:11.070-04:002011-04-01T18:37:11.070-04:00Scott, I agree this is the best explanation I have...Scott, I agree this is the best explanation I have seen yet. I am looking forward to the probable post on the Fairview School. My great grandparents, Oliver Wilson Eastburn and Marion Ellen Evans lived there for a time. I don't know when they moved there but he died there in OCT 1941. My mother remembers spending the night with her grandparents and watching the original Little's Garage building burn down. Donna P.Donna Phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15378464321244096775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945719747276028760.post-21726395239707891562011-04-01T15:20:06.805-04:002011-04-01T15:20:06.805-04:00In case anyone's noticed, sorry about the slow...In case anyone's noticed, sorry about the slow posting and commenting. I happen to be on vacation right now, so I'm not on a normal research/posting/commenting schedule. I do have access to monitor the blog, so I'll do what I can.Scott Palmerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10850758840846585533noreply@blogger.com