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Brandywine Creek State Park is a state park, located 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Wilmington, Delaware along the Brandywine Creek. Open year-round, it is 933 acres (378 ha) in area and much of the park was part of a Du Pont family estate and dairy farm before becoming a state park in 1965.
Brandywine Creek [1] [2] (also called the Brandywine River) is a tributary of the Christina River in southeastern Pennsylvania and northern Delaware in the United States. The Lower Brandywine (the main stem) is 20.4 miles (32.8 km) long [ 3 ] and is a designated Pennsylvania Scenic River with several tributary streams.
Three of northern Delaware's state parks ( Alapocas Run, Brandywine Creek, and Wilmington) exist to protect pieces of the historic Brandywine River, which was once heavily utilized by local industry. Four of southern Delaware's state parks ( Cape Henlopen, Delaware Seashore, Fenwick Island, and Holts Landing) preserve stretches of ocean and bay ...
Born. c. 1715. Fort Christina, Delaware. Died. c. 1767. Blennerhassett Island, Ohio River, West Virginia. Parent (s) Checochinican and Poynton. Nemacolin ( c. 1715 – c. 1767) was a hereditary chief of the Delaware Nation who helped Thomas Cresap widen a Native American path across the Allegheny Mountains to the Ohio River Valley .
Including Brandywine Creek, 71% of the Christina's basin is in Pennsylvania (400 square miles, 1,000 km 2); 28% is in Delaware (157 square miles, 410 km 2); and 1% is in Maryland (8 square miles, 21 km 2). The basin's streams supply approximately 100 million gallons (400 million liters) of water per day for more than half a million people in ...
Construction has started on S. Main St. on the deteriorating bridge over the Brandywine Creek tributary. Starting July 8, Route 91 will be closed at that location for 16 days. This map shows ...
Brandywine Falls, 86 feet (26.2 m) high, at , Elevation: 814 feet (248.1 m) within Cuyahoga Valley National Park, is accessed by a parking lot located on Stanford Road, about 100 feet (30.5 m) from Brandywine Road, approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) South of Ohio State Route 82, and 1 mile (1.6 km) North-West of Olde Eight in Sagamore Hills,
New Castle County, Delaware ( Wilmington address) / 39.769946; -75.580572. Breck's Mill Area, also known as Breck's Mill Area-Henry Clay Village Historic District, is a national historic district located along Brandywine Creek in unincorporated New Castle County, Delaware, near Wilmington. [2] It encompasses 56 contributing buildings, five ...