The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog

The southeast corner of Mill Creek Hundred once came very close to being one of the most famous, or possibly infamous, locations in American...

I've been toying with the idea of doing something like this for a while, and I've finally decided to put it up. What is it? -- The M...

Sometimes, it seems as if all of the surviving 18th and early 19th Century houses in Mill Creek Hundred were, until recently at least, the a...

OK, that might be overstating it just a bit, but I am pleased to announce that next week I will be giving a short presentation about a histo...

Last summer, we did a two-part post about Marshallton in the 1920's ( Part 1 , Part 2 ), centered around the recollections of long-time ...

 Lt. David Buckingham In Part I of this post , we set the stage for the events of November 4, 1862, somewhat grandiosely referred to a...

 Mermaid Tavern  Anyone who hasn't spent the past few years under a news-impenetrable rock has surely noticed an up-tick in partis...

 Fairview School, 1925  With the exception of the Harmony School on Limestone Road, there seems to have been very little written abou...