Hi Ed! Please clarify if the map you have showing "Mill Creek" is a "recent" map of the area, or if the map was "recently" given to you. It is certainly logical that, if Mayport was originally called Mayport Mills, that there should be a creek in that vicinity named Mill Creek. in doing a USGS search for "Mill Creek" I was surprised that it pulled up "Strawberry Creek" which is in the Arlington area. in the information that the USGS gives for Strawberry Creek, it includes a/k/a Mill Creek. I've always wondered why Mill Creek Road in Arlington was called that, and have been curious where the mill might have been. Perhaps there is a connection between Mill Creek Road and Strawberry Creek a/k/a Mill Creek. (That, however, is of no help to your question about Mayport.) Julie Thames Howell Jacksonville, Florida ----- Original Message ----- From: Edgar Taylor To: FLDUVAL-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 1:14 PM Subject: [FLDUVAL] Mayport's Mill Creek >From a recent map I was given of the Mayport area, I note that there was/is a creek near Mayport running from the St. John's River that bears the name "Mill Creek". The map is entitled "Old Mill Creek Site Durkee Tract" and is southwest of the then Mayport settlement. I suspect the remains of this is now just at the bend into the road leading to the street paralleling St. John's River into "downtown" Mayport, but am not sure of this. Does anyone know about this creek? I suspect this was associated with the Mayport Mills, but am not sure of this either. I suspect, too, that it was the location of the mill my ancestor, Cornelius Taylor, built in the 1830s or before. Any help will be appreciated, as I am [have been] writing a history of Mayport. Thanks. Ed T of PGH

Hi Julie- No, the map is not recent, but my acquiring it is. The map was drawn as part of a Flagler survey of the propery owners in the Mayport area. Unfortunately, the copy I have is not dated. I recall once seeing the Mill Creek in the Arlington area you mention. That it would be called "Strawberry Creek" is new to me. I think, as "Mill Creek" one of the Dewees wives mighty have had property on this creek. Probably Mary Dell, who married, as her second husband, Willlian Dewees. But having found the Mayport Mill Creek, I am now wondering if the reference to her land was not in the Mayport area instead, as part of her "slice" of the Dewees Grant. I do not have the plot of her claim before the commissioners who settled the claims for Fla terriorial land, if there was a map, so I can not tell. Ed T of PGH ---------- on 12/6/04 12:38 PM, Tony & Julie Howell at tjhowell1@comcast.net wrote: Hi Ed! Please clarify if the map you have showing "Mill Creek" is a "recent" map of the area, or if the map was "recently" given to you. It is certainly logical that, if Mayport was originally called Mayport Mills, that there should be a creek in that vicinity named Mill Creek. in doing a USGS search for "Mill Creek" I was surprised that it pulled up "Strawberry Creek" which is in the Arlington area. in the information that the USGS gives for Strawberry Creek, it includes a/k/a Mill Creek. I've always wondered why Mill Creek Road in Arlington was called that, and have been curious where the mill might have been. Perhaps there is a connection between Mill Creek Road and Strawberry Creek a/k/a Mill Creek. (That, however, is of no help to your question about Mayport.) Julie Thames Howell Jacksonville, Florida ----- Original Message ----- From: Edgar Taylor <mailto:ertjr1@earthlink.net> To: FLDUVAL-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 1:14 PM Subject: [FLDUVAL] Mayport's Mill Creek >From a recent map I was given of the Mayport area, I note that there was/is a creek near Mayport running from the St. John's River that bears the name "Mill Creek". The map is entitled "Old Mill Creek Site Durkee Tract" and is southwest of the then Mayport settlement. I suspect the remains of this is now just at the bend into the road leading to the street paralleling St. John's River into "downtown" Mayport, but am not sure of this. Does anyone know about this creek? I suspect this was associated with the Mayport Mills, but am not sure of this either. I suspect, too, that it was the location of the mill my ancestor, Cornelius Taylor, built in the 1830s or before. Any help will be appreciated, as I am [have been] writing a history of Mayport. Thanks. Ed T of PGH