"Grist from Abbott's Mill"

So go the lyrics of an old Irish folk tune. I’m not sure of the origin but you can look it up on-line. Apparently, there was a contest...

Ed. Note: The above title and this entire text on the Mud Mill Pond mills is taken, with permission of the author, from: “The Mills and...

I guess I hadn’t really given greenbriers too much thought until I recently took a hike with some naturalist friends from New Castle...

The Isaac's Branch runs west to east across the center of Kent County. The headwaters are about a quarter of a mile behind...

To learn about the mosses can be a somewhat tricky process. Believe me, I should know. Moss can certainly be admired, enjoyed, and...

Voshell's Mill Voshell's Pond is on private property. The mill is a private residence at the intersection of Voshells Mill-Star Hill Road...

Delaware is blessed with two species of naturally occurring trees that are commonly referred to as cedar. The name cedar is often...

The area of eastern Kent county where Andrew’s Lake is now, is part of a large tract of land once called "St. Collom," was taken up on a...

If you have spent any time walking the various Nature Preserve properties, sooner or later you will stumble onto the Native American...

Killen’s Pond John Craig, a Maryland farmer, may have been among the earliest European settlers in the Killens Pond area. It is not...

Just what makes a pine tree a pine tree? Pines are evergreen, members of the coniferous family that have needle-like leaves and bear...

Thomas Boone Coursey was born in Camden, Delaware in 1806, the son of Thomas Coursey, a carpenter and Mary Boone Coursey, who was...

Confusion, confusion. I am wanting to write about three small, evergreen plants that you may come upon on the Nature Preserve. If you...

Milford Hundred extends from the Delaware Bay on the east to what is now Killens Pond Road and Deep Grass Road on the west and from the...

Paul's post last week was our 52nd weekly posting. One Full Year! Wow, did that go quickly, or what? Paul has written about,...

Finally! Here was the small ad in the classified section of the Milford Chronicle that I had been waiting for: “Wanted, Turkeybeard. 5...

Here's what J. Thomas Scharf had to say back in 1888 about the mills in the Mispillion Hundred : Harrington The largest and by far the...

Each year as the weather begins to cool and frosty temperatures arrive; the mice begin to stir looking for a warmer abode. Soon enough...

The Old Mills in Northwest and Seaford Hundreds Business Interests [1888] In the early history of this section the mill-seats were well...

With a little time, tools, and effort, you can turn a piece of fallen wood into the absolute icon of the North and the Season. The...