Index of Topics

To make it easier to find specific subjects covered in this blog, here is an index of topics of previous posts:

• 1940 Census Released
• 4th Delaware, Company E Reunion
• Abandoned Bridges in the Woods, Two
• Allcorn, The Strange and Tragic Tale of Samuel
• Alrich-Wooleyhan Farm
• Armstrong Family Homestead Tracts at Mt. Cuba Part I, Part II, Part III
• Armstrongs of Hedgeland, Photo of Hedgeland
• Armstrongs of Woodland and Brookland
• Ashland Mill, Part II
• B&O Culverts (Kiamensi and Casho Mill)
• Bailey Family
• Baileys of Faulkland, Revisited
• Ball, Dr. Lewis Heisler
• Ball, Joseph House, Part 2, Epilogue
• Banks Family Picnic, Who's at the
• Banks, Jabez Invitations
• Banks Items, More
• Banks, R. R.: MCH's Automotive Pioneer
• Barker Mill Site
• Barkers of Barker's Bridge, Part II
• Bartley-Tweed Farm
• Battle of the Mermaid, Part 2
• Beers 1868 Map of Mill Creek Hundred
• Behemoth in White Clay Creek: Chambers Rock and Its Complex Legacy
• Bellew-Cain Lot and the Yarnall Survey Map
• Benevolent Order of the Sons and Daughters of Harrison Smith
• Benge Road, The Origins of
• Bernhard Family Cemetery
• Biggest Thing That Almost Happened in MCH (Battle of Red Clay)
• Billion Gallon Border: Part I -- The Red Clay Creek Proposal
• Billion Gallon Border: Part II -- The Old Mill Stream
• Bishop, John House
• Bissell, Emily P.
• Black, James
• Boat in a Race
• Boggs Family and the Boggs-Jacobs House
• Brackinville
• Brandywine Chalybeate Springs Hotel, Part II
• Brandywine Sanatorium System, Two Lost Houses From
• Brandywine Springs Amusement Park, Park Advertisement
• Brandywine Springs, National Guard Encampments at
• Bridge, The Travelling Newport Gap and Mt. Cuba
• Brown Farm, AKA The Farmhouse
• Brown, Samuel Hanby House
• Brown's Track -- Forerunner to Delaware Park?
• Buckingham-Pierson House
• Byrnes Mill Dam Removal
• Camp Mattahoon
• Camp Wright
• Capital Trail Garage
• Cedars
• Chambers, David House
• Chambers Family Farm in the 20th Century, Restoring The
• Chambers House, MCH History Blog on the Road
• Chandler, Dr. Swithin
• Chillas, David - Lithographer, Chillas Family/Roseville Follow Up
• Christiana Hundred in Winter '73, Views of
• Clark, Henry Woollen Mill
• Clarnen-Armor House
• Cloward, N. Dushane
• Country Roller Rink and Roller Polo, Updates and Extras
• Couple New Picture Additions to the Collection
• Craig, Walter House
• Cranston, Edward House
• Cranston, Simon
• Cranston, Sons of Simon, Part II
• Crowell Tape Corporation
• Cuba Rock, Cuba Rock II -- The Irish Wall
• Curtis Paper Mill -- The Meeteer Years, The Curtis Years
• Delaware Iron Works at Wooddale
• Delaware Park, Some Railroad-Related Pictures at, More B&O Pictures Around Delaware Park
• Delaware Park Woods, Mystery Bridge in 
• Delcastle Farm, Wells-Gregg Farm, aka Delcastle, Delcastle Water Troughs, More About Water Troughs, Still on the Trail of Stone Troughs
• Dennison, Samuel House, Status Update
• Denney-Morrison Farm Part I, Part II
• Derickson, Aquila House
• Derickson, Zachariah House - Early History of Land and Family, Derickson Farm Through the 19th Century and Beyond
• Dericksons of Kiamensi, Derickson, Razing of the Jacob House
• Di Guglielmo, Raffaele, aka Rafael Julian -- An Immigrant's Story
• Diamond State Kaolin Company
• Diamond State Land Development Company
• Dickey, The Adventurous Hettie
• Dixon, Samuel P House
• Dixon-Jackson House
• Dixon-Wilson House
• Drummond, The Inexplicably Famous Polly
• Duncan Road: A Colonial Highway
• Dutch Billy
• Eastburn-Bell Farm
• Eastburn, David E. Farm
• Eastburn, The Attempted Scamming of David
• Eastburn, The Family of David and Elizabeth
• Eastburn, The Family of William and Mary
• Eastburn-Jeanes Lime Kiln District (History), Structures, Lime Kilns
• Eastburn Homestead -- Part 1, Part 2
• Eastburn Store
• Ebenezer Methodist Church
• Eden School
• Edison, W.L. at Greenbank
• Election Flag, 1844 MCH
• England, Joseph House and Mill (Red Mill)
• Fair Field on Polly Drummond's Hill
• Fairview School #90
• Fanning Houses of Marshallton
• Faulkland Lyceum and the Faulkland Quiz
• Fell Historic District
• Fell Spice Mill, Fell Spice Bottle
• Ferguson-Worth Farm on Newport Gap Pike
• Few More Odds and Ends
• Fire at the Mill Creek Road Gregg House
• Flinn, Isaac House
• Foard's Store
• Foote, The William House
• Foote-Pyle House
• FootePrints in Mill Creek Hundred
• Ford, Powell M.
• Forest Oak District #35 School
• Fredericks of Mt. Cuba and Beyond
• General Washington in Milltown
• Gettysburg Sesquicentennial
• Graham, Robert House
• Graves, David House
• Green Bank Park
• Greenbank, More of the Village of
• Greenbank Mill and Philips House, Part 2
• Greenbank and Marshallton Mills Intro, Follow-Up
• Greenbank and Marshallton Mills, On the Origins of Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
• Greenwalt Quarry
• Guest, William Owner of Stanton Mill Part 1, Owner of Cuckoldstown Part 2
• Guthrie Tract Along Limestone Road
• Hadley-Dennison House
• Hand Family of Brandywine Hundred
• Hanna Family
• Harlan, Caleb -- Physician, Poet, Agronomist
• Harlan-Chandler Mill Complex (Part 1 - The Harlan Mill)
• Harlan-Chandler Mill Complex (Part 2 - The Chandler House)
• Harlan, More About Naomi and the Stanton PO
• Harmony School, #32
• Heald, Joshua T.
• Hersey-Duncan House
• Historical Floodings of the Red Clay and White Clay
• Hockessin Colored School #107C
• Hockessin Friends Meeting House
• Hockessin, How'd We End Up with a Funny Name Like?
• Hockessin's Disappearing, Reappearing Road
• Hollingsworth Case and Wild Wooddale, Part II
• Holidays in 18th Century Mill Creek Hundred, A Few Thoughts on
• Hulett, Josiah G., Josiah G. Hulett's House -- Found
• "Hundred" in Mill Creek Hundred, What is the?
• Huston-Springer Houses, The Real Story of
• In Memory -- Gertrude Mitchell Bell and Anna Mae Hedrick
• Jackson, Ephraim House and Mill
• Jackson, John G.
• Jeanes, Abel
• Jeanes, Abel's Great Stone Barn
• Jeanes, Abel Wants a Road
• Johnson, William Julius "Judy"
• Johnson-Morris House, Part 2
• Jones, Joseph Sale Ad
• Justis Family in Mill Creek Hundred, Part II
• Justis-Jones House
• Justis, Thomas House
• Kenny, Fr. Patrick and the Coffeee Run Church
• Kiamensi Garage and Inspector's Dwelling
• Kiamensi, Origins of the Name
• Kiamensi Road House
• Kiamensi Spring Water Company
• Kiamensi Woolen Mill
• Kidnapped to Mill Creek Hundred -- James Annelsey
• Kirkwood, Robert
• Klair, Aaron F. Bible
• Klair, Aaron F. and Family
• Klair Law
• Knowles Family
• Lamborn, Guest, and the Bunco Steerers
• Lang and Sturgis Store
• Lea-Derickson House
• Limestone - The duPont Carousel Estate
• Lincoln Highway and the Capitol Trail
• Little, Medill, and Mote: Teachers of MCH
• Little, Thomas House and the Old Hollingsworth Plantation
• Lobb Family, The Fascinating and Confusing, Part II
• Lost Pilling Houses of Kiamensi
• Love, Reverend Thomas
• Loveville
• Lynam Log House
• Magical 1948 Map
• Malcom-Burris-Weinstock Store
• Marshallton Bridge
• Marshall Families, Red Clay Valley Part I, Part II
• Marshalls and National Vulcanized Fibre
• Marshallton in the 1920's, Marshallton Part 2
• Marshallton Sites, A Few "New" Firm Dates for
• Marshallton, A "New" Old Photo of
• Marshallton United Methodist Church
• McComb-Winchester House
• McCormick, Levi House
• McDaniel, John House
• McDaniel-Peach House, More About the McDaniel-Peach House
• McKennan, Reverend William
• McKennan-Klair House
• Meeteer House
• Mendenhall House and Mills, Additions and Corrections, Early History
• Mendenhall Mob
• Mendenhall-Pierson Farm
• Merestone 
• Mermaid Tavern
• Mid-Week Historical Newsbreaks: Animal Anomilies, Another Mill Bites the Dust, A Buzz About Horses, Century Old Fire Edition, Danger - Bridge Out,  Death from the Skies, Lost and Found Department, McKennan-Klair House Sale Ad, Merestone Sales Ad, Osage You Can See, Train Mayhem Edition, Who's Got Your Tongue?, Wooddale's Dynamite Goat
• Mill Creek Hundred Blanket
• Mill Creek Hundred, The Changing Face of
• Mill Creek Hundred Tax Books
• Milliken, Hattie House
• Milltown, The Changing Face of
• Mitchell Farm (Woodside Farm)
• Mitchell, John
• Mitchell Station Part 1, Part 2
• Mitchell, Stephen House, aka North Star Farm
• Montgomery Family Cemetery
• Montgomery Follow-Up with New Resources
• Montgomery, John "The Boyne Water Major" and Family
• Montgomery, William House
• Morgan, William Farm, More About William Morgan
• Morris, Judge Hugh Estate, Part 2
• Mount Pleasant Inn
• Mt. Pleasant and Union Schools
• Myrtle Emma -- An Introduction, Christmas Stories, Easter and the Seasons (Spring), Father's Car and the Corn Roast, Home, The Neighborhood, School and Bumps and Bruises, A Walk to the Store and The Tradesmen
• Mystery Object, Identify This
• Nation, Carry Comes to Mill Creek Hundred
• New Castle County Bus Route Map
• New Castle County Courthouse
• New Life for Two Old Sites
• New Updates on Harrison Smith, W.L. Edison, and E-Mail
• Newark China Clay Company
• Newport and Gap Turnpike
• Newport-Gap Road That Never Was
• Nichols House, Finding the Part I - The British are Coming!, Part II - Where were the British and How Did They Go?
• Oak Hill Farm, aka Breidablik
• Ocasson -- The Cox-Mitchell House
• Old Capital Trail Extension
• Old Stone Hotel, Stanton
• Oversee Farm and Shangri-La
• Paper Mill and Faulkland Road Covered Bridges 
• Pecco, Another Possible Explanation for
• Peoples Farm
• Peters, Randolph and his Nurseries
• Philips, Charles S. Photographic Collection
• Pike Creek, Possible Origin of
• Plumgrove Farm
• Possum Park
• Primary Sources, Benefits of
• Quill, John and the Craig-Quill House
• Rea and Price 1849 Map
• Red Barn Restaurant
• Red Clay Creek Corridor Park Plan
• Reed, Ambrose
• Remnants of Old Roads and Bridges -- Old Linden Hill and Pigeon Hollow Roads
• Reynolds-Lindell House and Property, Part 2
• Roaringtown, The Lost Village of
• Robinson-Harlan-Chandler Mill, Filling in the Gaps
• Robinson-Highfield House
• Robinson-Murray House
• Roseville and the Bloody Section, The Italian Community at
• Roseville Cotton Factory
• Roseville Covered Bridge
• Roseville Farm, The Convoluted History of, Part 2
• Roseville Park, The Beginnings of
• Rotheram (Harmony) Mill House, The Many Updates to
• Shadd, Abraham Doras, Shadd Part 2
• Scharf's History of Delaware 1609-1888
• Scots-Irish, Some Thoughts About in Mill Creek Hundred
• Shooting in 19th Century Christiana Hundred
• Sinclair Station and/or Campbell's Store, Help With
• Smith's Corner and Beetle Cops, Update on Smith's Corner, A Different Direction on
• Southwood
• Spicer, George W. and the Marshallton Spice Mill
• Spring Grove Factory and Estate, Part II
• Spring Hill Brewery, Update, Yet Another Update
• Springer, Albert Gallatin
• Springers of Northern Mill Creek Hundred, Part 2
• Springer-Chandler Farm
• Springer-Cranston House
• Springer-Little Farm
• Springer-Little Farm, Impressions of the Current State of
• St. Barnabas' Episcopal Church
• St. James Church
• St. James Church Road Bridge
• Stanton -- A Town Long Asleep [Not] Beginning to Wake Up
• Stanton and Brandywine Springs Schools
• Stanton "Covered" Bridge
• Stanton Friends Meeting House
• Stanton Hotel
• Stanton Mills and Stanton-Byrnes House Part 1, Part 2,
• Stanton's Forgotten Mill
• Stanton's Original Name
• Stanton's Postmistress Troubles
• Stanton, Reminiscences of
• Stanton Schools, Couple of Old
• Stanton Station
• Stanton-Tatnall-Byrnes House Mystery Solved?
• State Industrial School for Colored Girls
• Stone Troughs, Mystery of the...Solved!
• Stoney Batter Road, Update, Yet Another Theory, Still More on Stoney Batter
• Strand Millas and Rock Spring
• Strouds of Stanton, Delaware (Guest Post)
• Stroud, Samuel House
• Sunset Cottage and the Golding House -- Part 1, Part 2
• Talley House, History of the Harmon
• Talley House, Rescuing of the Harmon
• Talley House, Save the Eli B.
• Taylors of...All Over the Place, Part II
• Taylor, David W. House and Dilworth Farm
• Tragedy at the Stanton Crossing, Follow Up
• Travelling Newport-Gap Pike and Mt. Cuba Bridge
• Trinder and Higgins Farms, More Information
• Trolley Comes to Stanton
• Trolleys of Brandywine Springs -- The Kennett Trolley
• Trolleys of Brandywine Springs -- The Peoples Trolley
• Troubled Story of Elmer Powers and the Midway Garage
• Tweed's Tavern
• Two Losses and a Case for Vigilance
• Tyson, Samuel House, aka The Hopyard Farm
• Vansant, John C. House
• Walker Farm Mystery Structure
• Walkers of Little Baltimore
• (Actual) Walkers of the Mermaid
• Walkers of the Mermaid Area
• Walker, William H. and Anna Photos
• Ward-Dudkewitz House
• Walker-Maclary House
• Weedon's Foray Historical Marker
• White Clay Creek Landing, The Mills of -- Part 1: The Byrnes Mill, Part 2: The Independence Mill
• White Clay Creek Presbyterian Church
• White Clay Creek School -- District No. 36
• White Clay Creek Supply Company and the Roseville Electric Plant
• Whiteman, Death of Mary
• Whiteman, Henry House
• Whiteman Family Revisited Part 1, Part 2
• Williams, Andrew Jackson and the Beginnings of the Village of Greenbank
• Williams, Richard H. - Mill Creek Hundred's First Mail Carrier
• Wilmington & Western Railroad, Early History and Impact of
• Wilson, David House
• Wolf, George A.
• Woodside, The Interesting Owners of
• Woodward, The Abners House
• Worrell, Thomas Family and Mill
• Yarnalls (and More) and Another Inn
• Yarnall Tavern, When Did it Open
• Yarnalls and Their Tavern
• Yearsleys of Mill Creek Hundred
• Yellow Hall
• Zoomable 1868 Beers Map Overlay