The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog

Mary Jane Chambers and her sons (L-R): Samuel Kemble, George R., Richard McCausland, Charles, John Jay I am proud and honored to present ano...

A while back we looked at the "Italian Colony" that grew up near Wooddale, on the very eastern edge of Mill Creek Hundred. It was...

Oak Hill Farm, 1927 One of the aspects of history I find interesting is how many different "lives" a given property can have over ...

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 ...