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Related: About this forumWhat is your Hundred?
Mine is Mill Creek, and the prize goes to whomever first chimes in on what a hundred is.
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What is your Hundred? (Original Post)
jberryhill
Dec 2011
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Skinner
(63,645 posts)1. Brandywine.
At least, that's where I grew up. Don't live in Delaware anymore. But I subscribe to the DU Delaware Group!
treestar
(82,383 posts)2. Mill Creek - here's a site with maps
http://history.delaware.gov/information/GISdata/Hundreds_Maps/georef_hundreds.html
They were for legislative districting - so says Wikipedia. They appear on deeds but have no political significance now.
They were for legislative districting - so says Wikipedia. They appear on deeds but have no political significance now.
kristopher
(29,798 posts)3. Decades ago it was Pencader
Now it's Indian River.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)4. Wasn't there a bar named Pencader at one point?
kristopher
(29,798 posts)5. Yes.
Rough place just across the state line off of Elkton Rd. I was a teen at the time growing up a couple of miles SSE of there at the base of Iron Hill.