The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog

A Kennett trolley passing by Lake Washington at Brandywine Springs Amusement Park In the last post, we looked at the Peoples Railway Co...

Doing its job advertising the park Of the three trolley lines that once made their way into Mill Creek Hundred, two of them were created...

The Walker-Maclary House If you've read a few of these posts before (especially some of the more recent ones), you'll have notic...

The Levi McCormick House Back in 2012, I wrote a post about the Randolph Peters Nurseries , located on the western end of Mill Creek Hun...

The Spring Grove Mills Estate today In the last post , we followed the story of the Spring Grove Factory from its beginnings as Henry Br...

Spring Grove, taken by Charles Philips, 1895 Many of the recent posts here have been about families and their farms, but as we all know,...

In the last post , guest writer Robert Wilhelm began telling us the story of Hoopes Reservoir by first relating the tale of the Red Clay Cr...

I'm excited and proud to present here another Guest Post from Robert Wilhelm. Bob has done some great research into the origins and con...