The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog

Locations of past and current (as of 1881) Lobb properties In the last post , we took a deep and confusing look at the Lobb family, who from...

Often when I think about local history, I come back to that line that I was always told as a kid if I asked about what "used to be here...

The Wooleyhans' West Wind farm For this story, we're again going to travel outside the confines of Mill Creek Hundred, this time sou...

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...