"Grist from Abbott's Mill"

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...

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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...

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...

Most of the old buildings of the Garrett Snuff Mill are still standing, located near the community of Yorklyn, just north-east of...

This post is borrowed, with permission, from Scott Palmer's well researched The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog...

This post is borrowed, with permission, from Scott Palmer's well researched The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog...

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 Years This post, on the Curtis Paper Mill, is borrowed, with permission, from Scott Palmer's well researched The Mill Creek...

The Meeteer Years This post, on the Curtis Paper Mill, is borrowed, with permission, from Scott Palmer's well researched The Mill Creek...

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...

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....

In Thomas Scharf’s 1888 “History of Delaware,” Mill Creek Hundred chapter, Scharf mentions several dozen mills in Mill Creek Hundred,...

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...

Due to recently discovered damage to the floor joists under the ground floor of the mill, it has become necessary to close it to the...

Joseph Dean and Son Woolen Mill A lot of the following text is straight out of Thomas Scharf's 1888 "History of Delaware". I modified and...

Jacob Casho Machine Company (As the name implies, the Casho Co. Mill was not a grist mill, however, the road it was near is now called...

As we did last time, we will begin at the northern end of the hundred and work our way south, exploring the mills that we find along the...

After learning about the Cooch-Dayett Mill in my last post, we're now going to the northern end of Pencader Hundred and we'll travel...

What we now refer to as Cooch-Dayett Mills, is located in the SW corner of the intersection of Rt. 72 and Old Baltimore Pike, next to the...