The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog

A prize-winning photo If you’ve ever noticed, most of the old photographs (and I’m defining “old” as anything before digital cameras. Film. ...

February 7, 1890 -- The Lyceum is born Unbeknownst to most (and by "most", I mostly mean "me"), the not-quite-village of...

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...