The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog

We take a short break from our regularly scheduled Part II post about the Barkers (which will be up in a day or two), for this special annou...

The Barker House, c.1988 Over the nearly 350 years of Mill Creek Hundred history, many families have called the area home. Most clans cu...

Sen. L. Heisler Ball, 1919 As has been noted several times in the past, Mill Creek Hundred doesn't really boast much in the way of n...

Water Trough at Canby Park No, when I started writing this blog I had no clue that one day I'd end up writing multiple posts about s...

In the previous post , we began looking at the history of the Ashland Mill, located on the east (north?) or Christiana Hundred side of Red C...

Ashland Mill, 1895 As we've seen many times on this blog, Mill Creek Hundred may be the most aptly named of all the hundreds in Dela...

A couple of years ago I wrote a post about Aaron F. Klair and his family , spurred by an earlier post about the anti-liquor Klair Law . Then...

Old Capitol Trail and Newport Gap Pike, 1965 As you may have noticed, the blogging here has been a bit light the past month. Ok, more th...