The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog

Meeting House Road area today Over the course of the centuries, it's not unusual for roads to come and go, or for them to change in some...

Location of Benge Road, north of Hockessin Normally when we think of traces of history around us or historical sites, what comes to mind are...

Without question, one of my favorite things about doing this whole history thing is when people are kind enough to share with us old photogr...

Pasqualina and Raffaele di Guglielmo This should be obvious, but pretty much every local resident ever mentioned on this blog was either an ...

The Isaac Hand house, shortly before demolition in 1962. Inset shows a family  headstone at Newark Union Cemetery One of the running themes ...

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...