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...
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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...
Abbott's Mill CLOSED to the public until further notice.
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 - White Clay Creek Hundred - part III
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 - White Clay Creek Hundred - part II
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...
The Old Mills of, White Clay Creek Hundred - part I
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...
Pencader Hundred II - Grist and Saw Mills
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...
Pencader Hundred I - Cooch-Dayett Mills
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...
An appeal to our readers
Since we started this blog in December, 2020, we have posted about 84 weekly articles about Delaware grist mills and the northern Sussex...
The Olde Mills of St. Georges Hundred - Part II
Shallcross Lake St. Georges Hundred Industries (1888) In 1733 John Vance purchased a tract of land, which he conveyed to his father,...
Those Fascinating Ferns
Ferns are some of the oldest vascular plants in the world, yet they are still very much with us and provide a foundation for our lovely...
The Olde Mills of St. Georges Hundred, part I
Industries (1888) The Brick Mill - On May 13, 1769, Jonas Preston petitions the court for a condemnation of mill land. He says in his...
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