The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog

Invitation for the inaugural WWRR train, Oct. 19, 1872 The topic of transportation advances has come up in several recent posts, but mos...

A bridge on Milltown Road, 1921 In the last post we looked briefly at some of the changes that were taking place in and around Mill Cre...

Section of Lincoln Highway (Kirkwood Highway) in 1918 The history of Mill Creek Hundred, as with much of New Castle County, can be neatl...

William Hicks Walker A while back I put out an open-ended request for any old photographs that anyone might have that pertained to peopl...

The Ward-Dudkewitz House A  couple posts back we were introduced to the fascinating little 1857 newspaper article relating the story of...

We all know that Mill Creek Hundred never had any sort of densely populated area like a city or even a large town. There were numerous sma...

One of the things I really love about doing the kind of hodgepodge "research" that I do is the times when interesting and signif...

In a recent post I lamented the fact that as far as the Mill Creek Hundred area goes, there often seems to be a limited amount of informatio...