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Brandywine Creek State Park is a public recreation area located three miles (4.8 km) north of Wilmington, Delaware along the Brandywine Creek. The state park is 951.33 acres (384.99 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. It contains the first two nature preserves ...
The creek continues south through First State National Historical Park and Brandywine Creek State Park, into Wilmington, [7] where it flows through Brandywine Park near the city center. Brandywine Creek joins the Christina River 1 mile (1.6 km) east of downtown Wilmington and about 2 miles (3 km) upstream from the mouth of the Christina, which ...
The U.S. state of Delaware has 17 state parks.Each of the parks is operated and maintained by the Delaware Division of Parks and Recreation, a branch of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC), although one state park, First State Heritage Park, is managed by the Division of Parks and Recreation in partnership with other city and state agencies.
The construction and replacement project has started on the Route 91 bridge over the Brandywine Creek tributary near Yours Truly restaurant.
It is located slightly downstream from Brandywine Park. The park is on the site of a former vocational high school. [14] The park offers a scenic overlook of the Brandywine Creek and its historic millrace, which once fed local industry along the creek but now supplies Wilmington's drinking water. [15]
Footbridge to Bancroft Mills Brandywine River and Alapocas Woods. Alapocas Run was originally created as a 123-acre city park (50 ha) named Alapocas Woods.In 1910 when Alfred I. du Pont was building his Nemours estate from DuPont Company lands, fellow industrialist William Poole Bancroft convinced him to have the company transfer a portion of the land between Nemours and the Brandywine to the ...
The byway passes by several tourist destinations, including Rodney Square, Hotel du Pont, the Goodstay House, the Gibraltar Mansion, the Delaware Museum of Natural History, Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, and Centreville Village on DE 52 and Montchanin Village, Brandywine Creek State Park, and First State National Historical Park on DE 100.
The stream flows for several miles through Brandywine Creek State Park and part of First State National Historical Park before feeding the larger Brandywine Creek. [7] [8] [9] Rocky Run itself is fed by Hurricane Run, also located in Brandywine Creek State Park. [8]