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The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog: The Changing Face of Milltown
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The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog. Celebrating The History and Historical Sites of Mill Creek Hundred, in the Heart Of New Castle County, Delaware. Map of Historic Sites. Monday, June 15, 2015. The Changing Face of Milltown. A bridge on Milltown Road, 1921. In the last post. Writer's note: I'm also the Editor. Plans for 1922 work on Limestone Road. Limestone Road over Mill Creek, 1921. New" Limestone Road bridge, c.1923. Showing old paths of Milltown Rd (red), Limestone Rd (blue),. Notice now (if you n...
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The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog: June 2015
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The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog. Celebrating The History and Historical Sites of Mill Creek Hundred, in the Heart Of New Castle County, Delaware. Map of Historic Sites. Friday, June 26, 2015. The Early History and Impact of the Wilmington and Western Railroad. Invitation for the inaugural WWRR train, Oct. 19, 1872. Posted by Scott Palmer. Monday, June 15, 2015. The Changing Face of Milltown. A bridge on Milltown Road, 1921. In the last post. Writers note: Im also the Editor. Posted by Scott Palmer.
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The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog: July 2015
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The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog. Celebrating The History and Historical Sites of Mill Creek Hundred, in the Heart Of New Castle County, Delaware. Map of Historic Sites. Wednesday, July 29, 2015. Still on the Trail of the Stone Troughs. After seeing the ones at Delcastle, I had the suspicion that there had to be more of them around. Then, sure enough, Tom Gears pointed out another one in Canby Park, and Ken Shelin recalled seeing one years ago in the Concord Pike/Naamans Road vicinity. Hundred (and MC...
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The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog: The Changing Face of Mill Creek Hundred
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The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog. Celebrating The History and Historical Sites of Mill Creek Hundred, in the Heart Of New Castle County, Delaware. Map of Historic Sites. Monday, June 8, 2015. The Changing Face of Mill Creek Hundred. Section of Lincoln Highway (Kirkwood Highway) in 1918. Early housing developments like The Cedars and Rosedale began to pop up, and words like suburbs. Milltown Road at Newport Gap Pike,. Milltown Road after 1960 resonstruction. Through some of the old photographs. The lan...
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The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog: The Kiamensi Garage and Inspector's Dwelling
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The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog. Celebrating The History and Historical Sites of Mill Creek Hundred, in the Heart Of New Castle County, Delaware. Map of Historic Sites. Friday, August 7, 2015. The Kiamensi Garage and Inspector's Dwelling. The Delaware State Highway Department's. Kiamensi Truck Storage Shed, in 1941. The Kiamensi Inspector's Dwelling, 1941. Nearby then it is not longer standing. If that's the case, then where was it? The above paragraph has been edited from its original form to reflec...
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The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog: The Early History and Impact of the Wilmington & Western Railroad
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The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog. Celebrating The History and Historical Sites of Mill Creek Hundred, in the Heart Of New Castle County, Delaware. Map of Historic Sites. Friday, June 26, 2015. The Early History and Impact of the Wilmington and Western Railroad. Invitation for the inaugural WWRR train, Oct. 19, 1872. The driving force behind the push for a new railroad was a Mill Creek Hundred native already featured on the blog - Joshua T. Heald. Alan Wood (of the Delaware Iron Works. The other specif...
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The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog: William Guest (Part 1) -- Owner of Stanton Mill
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The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog. Celebrating The History and Historical Sites of Mill Creek Hundred, in the Heart Of New Castle County, Delaware. Map of Historic Sites. Monday, July 6, 2015. William Guest (Part 1) - Owner of Stanton Mill. William Guest's Wedgebury Tract. Researched and Written by Walt Chiquoine -. Guest/Man property, 1702. THE FIRST STANTON MILL. In 1699, William Guest (as successor to Abraham Man) won a case against Empson about the mill property, but Empson posted bond to appeal th...
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The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog: MCH History Forum
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The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog. Celebrating The History and Historical Sites of Mill Creek Hundred, in the Heart Of New Castle County, Delaware. Map of Historic Sites. And as always, if you have something you'd rather just share with or ask me directly, you can email me. May 20, 2011 at 11:07 AM. OK, Im going to kick this off with a question for our, um, more veteran area residents. This comes from the creator of oldwilmington.net. He asked on his site:. May 20, 2011 at 1:07 PM. I grew up in SP II, ...
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The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog: The First Name of the First Town in MCH
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The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog. Celebrating The History and Historical Sites of Mill Creek Hundred, in the Heart Of New Castle County, Delaware. Map of Historic Sites. Friday, August 19, 2011. The First Name of the First Town in MCH. Main Street in Stanton, courtesy Ken Copeland. Unlike with Stanton, the origin of Richmondtown's early name has been preserved, and I think there is a very good chance that our village came upon its name in the same way. The trick is that it has nothing whatsoever t...
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The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog: August 2015
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The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog. Celebrating The History and Historical Sites of Mill Creek Hundred, in the Heart Of New Castle County, Delaware. Map of Historic Sites. Thursday, August 27, 2015. A Couple of Old Stanton Schools. Stanton #38 School, 1928. And of the old stone house. Across from Emily Bissell. Posted by Scott Palmer. Friday, August 21, 2015. Two Lost Houses from the Brandywine Sanatorium System. Nurses Home on the move, 1941. From the. Collection of James and Anita Brady. MCH History B...
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