The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog

 Ad for David Chillas, c.1855 In February 2011, I did some cursory research and wrote a post about the Roseville Cotton Mill , which ...

Brookland In the last post , we began looking at the Armstrong family of southwestern Christiana Hundred, a portion of which they came t...

Hedgeland, circa 1880 One phenomenon that I've run across in my research that I've always thought was interesting was how certai...

For this week's Historical Newsbreak, we'll keep it shorter and lighter. It comes to us from the August 2, 1904 edition of The Washi...

This week we have a couple of iron-horse-related stories, sent to me by Donna Peters. They both come from the 1890's and occur along the...

Welcome to the first of what I hope will be a regular feature (at least for a while) here on the Mill Creek Hundred History Blog. For a whil...

Unlike other times when I've made this statement and been wrong, I'm pretty sure this will be a short post (at least compared to som...

Sunnybrook Cottage From the late 17th Century through the early 20th, Mill Creek Hundred was home to numerous water-powered mills. For o...