This morning, I was reading the 1804 assessment for Mill Creek Hundred, New
Castle County, Delaware, when I saw something startling, to say the least.
Most of the houses in the hundred were stone, or log, or sometimes brick.
Three were listed as mud-walled. What is a mud-walled house doing in
temperate, humid, rainy, wet New Castle County in 1804. In all three cases,
the inhabitants of these mud-walled houses were substantial, one of them a
farmer with more than 200 acres.
 
Turf or sod springs to mind. How else can one intepret this?
 
 
 
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