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Wilmington is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Delaware.The city was built on the site of Fort Christina, the first Swedish settlement in North America. It lies at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine Creek, near where the Christina flows into the Delaware River.
Map of Wilmington, Delaware, 1874. 1802 - DuPont gunpowder manufacturer in business at Eleutherian Mills on Brandywine Creek near Wilmington. [1] 1809 - Borough of Wilmington expanded. [1] 1814 - Harmonic Society formed. [6] 1824 - "First public opinion poll" taken in Wilmington during the U.S. presidential election campaign. [7] 1832
This is a list of properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Wilmington, Delaware: [1]. For reasons of size, the listings in New Castle County are divided into three lists: those in Wilmington, other listings in northern New Castle County (north of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal), and those in southern New Castle County (south of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal).
Fort Christina, also called Fort Altena, was the first Swedish settlement in North America and the principal settlement of the New Sweden colony. Built in 1638 and named after Christina, Queen of Sweden, it was located approximately 1 mi (1.6 km) east of the present-day downtown Wilmington, Delaware, at the confluence of the Brandywine River and the Christina River, approximately 2 mi (3 km ...
The history of Delaware as a political entity dates back to the early colonization of North America by European settlers. Delaware is made up of three counties established in 1638, before the time of William Penn .
Holy Trinity Church, also known as Old Swedes, is a historic church at East 7th and Church Street in Wilmington, Delaware.It was consecrated on Trinity Sunday, June 4, 1699, by a predominantly Swedish congregation formerly of the colony of New Sweden. [3]
The Delaware Historical Society began in 1864 as an effort to preserve documents from the Civil War.Since then, it has expanded into a statewide historical institution with several buildings, including Old Town Hall and the Delaware History Museum, in Wilmington and the historic Read House & Gardens in New Castle.
Mayors of Wilmington, Delaware Rank Image Mayor Start End Party Note 1 Richard Bayard [1] 1832 1834 Whig Wilmington incorporated in 1832. 2 Nicholas Williamson 1834 1843 Whig 3 David C. Wilson: 1843 1845 Whig 4 Alexander Porter 1845 1848 Whig 5 William Huffington 1848 1850 Democratic 6 Joshua Driver 1850 1851 7 Columbus Evans: 1851 1852 Whig