Breck's Mill, near the Hagley Museum
It has been difficult to find stories about mills that still exist, but Breck’s Mill is not only still in place, but the three and a half...
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"Grist from Abbott's Mill"
Not the same old grind!
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THE OLD MILL ON NAAMAN’S CREEK
It appears that the first owner of the property where the town of Claymont now stands was a Mr. Jasper Yeates. In the book; The...
Woodside to be featured in new Ag Museum exhibit
Delaware Agricultural Museum and Village Coming to the - Delaware Agricultural Museum and Village - February 4 - April 15, 2023...
The Du Pont Gunpowder Mills
From 1802 to 1921, Eleutherian Mills was a gunpowder mill site used for the manufacture of explosives, founded by Eleuthère Irénée du...
The Jessup and Moore Paper Mills, Rockland and Augustine
The circa 1816 map, above, represents the Brandywine River from about King Street (Rt-13) in Wilmington, at the bottom, to Rockland at...
William Lea & Sons' New Flour Mill
SEVERAL NEWLY DISCOVERED PICTURES ARE AT THE END OF THIS ARTICLE The following is taken from the January 13th, 1882 edition of The Daily...
The Brandywine Mills
I came across an article about the mills on the lower Brandywine River, from the Morning News, dated January 24th, 1884. I found it very...
The Walton, Whann & Company Super Phosphate
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The John Richardson Mill on Little Mill Creek
In 1723 and 1726 John Richardson bought one-hundred-and-ninety-five acres bordering Mill Creek. On this property was a mill that had been...
The Marshall Bros.’ Paper Mill
If you read last weeks post about the Garrett Snuff Mill, then you remember that the first paper mill at this site on the upper Red Clay...
The Garrett Snuff Mill, Yorklyn, DE
Most of the old buildings of the Garrett Snuff Mill are still standing, located near the community of Yorklyn, just north-east of...
The Mills of White Clay Creek Landing -- Part 2: The Independence Mill
This post is borrowed, with permission, from Scott Palmer's well researched The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog...
The Mills of White Clay Creek Landing -- Part 1: The Byrnes Mill
This post is borrowed, with permission, from Scott Palmer's well researched The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog...
Halloween Special - Delaware's Haunted Mills
Delaware's Haunted Mills and some true, but gory, stories. The few historic mills that remain in Delaware are, for the most part,...
The Curtis Paper Mill - Part II
The Curtis Years This post, on the Curtis Paper Mill, is borrowed, with permission, from Scott Palmer's well researched The Mill Creek...
The Curtis Paper Mill - Part I
The Meeteer Years This post, on the Curtis Paper Mill, is borrowed, with permission, from Scott Palmer's well researched The Mill Creek...
Another of Delaware's Old Red Mills
If you live or work anywhere in the Newark, Ogletown, Pike Creek area of Delaware, you know that Red Mill Road begins at Rt. 2 (Capitol...
Philips' Greenbank Mill
Adapted for this blog from: “Two Mills on Red Clay Creek in the 19th Century” By Carroll W. Pursell, Jr. - 1964 Edited by Robert E....
The Oliver Evans Mill, aka C. J. Fell & Brother Spice Mill
In Thomas Scharf’s 1888 “History of Delaware,” Mill Creek Hundred chapter, Scharf mentions several dozen mills in Mill Creek Hundred,...
White Clay Creek Hundred Mills - part IV
Harmony Mills A lot of the following text is straight out of Thomas Scharf's 1888 "History of Delaware". I modified and added to some...
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