The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog

Possibly Randolph Peters' House There has always been something on the 1868 Beers map that intrigued me, but about which I had never...

Joshua T. Heald It is, admittedly, true that Mill Creek Hundred does not boast much in the way of sons or daughters who have made a last...

I always like it when one historical investigation leads me naturally into another one, rather than having to look around and decide what ...

The Aaron Klair House In the last post, we took a look at Prohibition Era Delaware, and Delaware's own heatedly contentious anti-liq...

 Rolling advertisement for Prohibition Repeal, Wilmington 1930  New Years has just passed, which always brings to mind two things (OK,...

Bartley-Tweed House Tucked away on a bend on what I always thought of as a "cut-through" road (on the back way to Newark), sit...

Ad promoting the sale of lots in The Cedars If asked to describe Mill Creek Hundred today, I think the word near the top of most people...

 Richard R. Banks' Wilmington Automobile Company  As we've seen in numerous previous posts, there has been a wide range of di...