The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog

Pusey P. and Mary Turner Taylor In the last post , we began a somewhat self-indulgent look at the Taylor family, mostly focusing on the ...

David W. and Elizabeth Taylor, with grandson David W. Taylor In the last post about the David W. Taylor House , I promised a more inde...

I have another mystery for you all, and it's one that falls in the category of Cool Sh*t You Find in the Woods. A reader named Frank had...

The David W. Taylor House One of my dirty little secrets here is that although I was born and raised in Mill Creek Hundred, my family di...

A Wilmington Fountain Society water trough I don't consider myself to be a great researcher or writer, or even have particularly bri...

In the early years of Mill Creek Hundred, many of the large plantations were given names by their new owners -- names that would have been w...

Myrtle Emma and oldest sister Mary In a quick turnaround, here are two more excerpts from Myrtle Emma , the collected memoirs of Mill Cr...

Union School, 1926 I realized that it had been a while since we'd seen another installment from Myrtle Emma , the memoirs of Mill Cr...