The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog

The Eastburn Homestead today In  the first post about the Eastburn Homestead , we looked at the early years of the Eastburn family in Mill ...

David Eastburn, Jr. I'll start this out by saying that this is a post that was never meant to be, but I'm glad it is, as it truly do...

The Eastburn Homestead There have certainly been a number of prominent families in Mill Creek Hundred over the past several hundred years, b...

The 68 acre farm sold by Ephraim Yarnall to Amor Bailey in 1829 After not having really updated many old posts in a while, I seem to be on a...

The lot sold to Annie Golding in 1880 In the last post we took a close look at Sunset Cottage , the Hockessin retirement home of John G. Ja...

Sunset Cottage If you've paid attention to these posts (and no judgement if you haven't, that's between you and your conscience)...

The Southwood area in 1881 It was a while back that I stopped thinking about these posts as "reports" and began approaching them m...

The William Elliot House In the last post we were introduced to the idea that Greenbank (the area around Greenbank Road,  Newport Gap Pike...