The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog

In the last Mid-Week Newsbreak post we got the sad story of the McBride family, and the possible eventual consequences from the incident....

After a short absence, the Mid-Week Historical Newsbreak is back, with a story about a holiday season tragedy in Stanton. This one is intere...

Wilmington Star, Dec. 18, 1927 Most of the history we have about historic Mill Creek Hundred, and therefore most of the posts here, deal...

Old Linden Hill Road, 1849 I'm pleased to say that this is another Guest Post, written by Dave Olsen. Dave actually submitted this t...

Reading Eagle August 12, 1925   After taking the week off last week for Thanksgiving (yeah, that's the reason), the Mid-Week(ish)...

David Chillas' notice of starting his own business In the last post about Philadelphia lithographer and MCH farmer David Chillas ,...

 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...