Warner Mifflin
KC-91: Born into a slaveholding Quaker family in Virginia and later becoming an abolitionist, Warner Mifflin came to Delaware as a young man. An elder of the Religious Society of Friends, he traveled extensively to convince others to free their slaves, manumitting his own in 1774-75. In 1788, he was one of the founders of […]
Murderkill / Motherkiln Friends Meeting
KC-090: By 1712, Quakers of the Religious Society of Friends met “at the widow Needham’s at Murderkill Creek,” later establishing as Motherkiln Preparative Meeting. Circa 1760, a meetinghouse was constructed on this site. The structure burned soon thereafter, and for a time the Friends debated locating to a site near Tidbury Creek. A brick meetinghouse […]
Magnolia
RG# 6130 Magnolia is located within a large tract of land which was once owned by the Duke of York and these large land holdings were maintained through most of the first half of the nineteenth century. There were major roads that bisected that land and it was at the intersection of two such roads […]
OUCH! Dang Mosquito!!!
I saw in the newspaper the other day that they are predicting that the mosquitos are going to be really bad this year because of all the water still laying around. Did you know that we have records of the Civilian Conservation Corps and Mosquito Control? We have scrapbooks, diaries, ditch drawings, and photographs. Subjects […]
