The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog

Capitol Trail Markers ready, July 22, 1920 This post began life as a simple comment on the Elmer Powers/Midway Garage post about the correc...

The Capital Trail Garage, formerly Elmer Powers' Midway Garage A few years back I wrote a post about the Capital Trail Garage , operated...

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 ...