The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog

Foard's Store, Spicer's House, and "The Rock" Of all the different types of businesses and institutions around in th...

 Jabez Banks Sale Notice, 1889 A little while back I was fortunate enough to have a small cache of local history items given to me by...

Rotheram House This post was massively updated in May 2022. It's been noted before that the bulk of the mills along the Red Clay ...

The Old Stone, or Rising Son, Hotel, c.1970 I'm proud to present here the next in what I hope to be a continuing series of Mill Cree...

Lea-Derickson House Take a trip sometime into Wilmington and position yourself on the north end of the Market Street Bridge over the Bra...

 Pickett's Charge, July 3, 1863  I don't often do little timely posts like this, but this seemed too important not to ackno...

 Richard R. Kenney Perhaps no place in Mill Creek Hundred has as rich and diverse of a history as Brandywine Springs. Normally whe...

If you'll recall (or even if you won't), a while back there was a post that included a 1921 picture of a bridge that was caption...