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The Christina River in its upper course in 2006, near the community of Christiana. The Christina River and its tributaries drain an area of 565 square miles, 1,460 km 2. Brandywine Creek, despite being a tributary of the Christina, drains 58% of this area (325 square miles, 840 km 2).
White Clay Creek is an 18.5-mile-long (29.8 km) [2] tributary of the Christina River in southern Pennsylvania and northern Delaware in the United States.It is renowned for its scenic character and is largely federally protected.
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.
It is named after the Christina River, which is in turn named after Christina, Queen of Sweden who oversaw the founding of New Sweden in 1638.. The Christiana Historic District, Charles Allen House, John Lewden House, Old Fort Church, Public School No. 111-C, and James Stewart Jr. House and George Hillis Sr. House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
[notes 1] Local rivers include the Hangingstone River, Clearwater River and Christina River, a tributary of the Clearwater River. The Hangingstone River drains an area of 1,070 km 2 (413 sq mi), which is dominated by muskeg, [citation needed] and flows into the Clearwater River just upstream of the Athabasca River at Fort McMurray. [16]
Newport is a town in New Castle County, Delaware, United States.It is on the Christina River.It is best known for being the home of colonial inventor Oliver Evans.The population was 1,055 at the 2010 census. [3]
The area was called "Maax-waas Unk" or "Bear Place" after the Maax-waas Hanna (Bear River) that flowed by (present Christina River). It was called the Bear River because it flowed west to the "Bear People", who are now known as the People of Conestoga or the Susquehannocks. The Dutch heard and spelled the river and the place as Minguannan.
Brandywine Hundred is that portion of New Castle County that lies north of the Christina River and east of Brandywine Creek, excepting that portion in the south included in Wilmington Hundred. Its northern boundary follows a portion of the 12 mile arc drawn around the town of New Castle. It was one of the original hundreds in Delaware created ...