History. The borough of Mill Creek was named for Mill Creek, a tributary of the Juniata River, on which it is located. The creek was the main source of power for many of the mills in the settlement years of the 1700s, as well as during much of the nineteenth century.
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One of the earliest townships in the Erie Triangle to be settled, Millcreek was one of the original 16 townships of Erie County. As families came they moved ...
Mill Creek and Brady Township began their founding some time in the 1770s, as the first settlers began to arrive. Although, a few settlers did live within ...
Mill Creek originated in Montgomery County and entered the area that became West Philadelphia at a point near the future intersection of City Line Avenue ...
Mill Creek rises in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; runs southeasterly to West Philadelphia, where it enters 19th-century sewer pipes; and debouches ...
At the corner of Old Gulph Road and Mill Creek stands the ruins of one of the longest-run mills in the region. For over a hundred years, generations of the ...
From the period of the first settlement to the present time, the township has been gradually changing from a vast forest to a territory abounding in beautiful ...
The Creek received its name because the first mill in the county was built at its mouth. As late as 1835 there were not less than four grist mills and thirteen ...
Mill Creek, once a power source for various mills, achieved notoriety in the 20th century as an underground culverted sewer and submerged floodplain that ...
Mill Creek Valley was a bustling industrial site through much of the 19th century. Mill ownership expanded beyond the original Welsh settlers to include ...