The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog

This is a bit of an odd post for several reasons. First, the site is slightly outside of Mill Creek Hundred, but only very slightly. Second...

Rev. Thomas Love Nineteenth Century Mill Creek Hundred, like the rest of the country, was a highly religious place. The smattering of sm...

First of all, at the risk of disappointing anyone who misread the title the same way I did an email subject line, this post is not about ...

Ball House, July 2007 I wasn't really planning on doing a third post (after Part 1 and Part 2 ) about this house, but there just e...

The Joseph Ball House In the last post , we took a look at the 19th Century history of what I call the Joseph Ball House, located in the...

I've only been writing this blog for a little less than two years now, but in that time I feel I've learned a pretty decent amount...

Hockessin Colored School #107C In my opinion, there are many interesting and significant historical sites in Mill Creek Hundred. Most, t...

Joseph Jones' 1855 sale ad I wanted to share something here that got forwarded to me while back, and that I'm just now getting a...