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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 Brandywine Creek flows south through the Brandywine Creek State Park, into Wilmington [12] where it flows through Brandywine Park near the city center. Along the way it flows past Hagley Museum and Library where it powered the powder mills of the early Dupont company. The flow of the creek is not substantial, though it is reliable, being ...
It borders Pennsylvania's White Clay Creek Preserve. Wilmington: New Castle: 576.4 acres (233.3 ha) 1998 Wilmington State Parks is an urban park unit consisting of several smaller parks protecting land along the Brandywine River in the heart of Wilmington. The park includes Brandywine Park, Brandywine Zoo, H. Fletcher Brown Park, and Rockford Park.
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]
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).
Brandywine Valley (formerly Beaver Valley) consists of land originally purchased in the early 1900s by Quaker industrialist and conservationist William Poole Bancroft, whose goal it was to preserve as much land as possible along the Brandywine River to ensure its scenic rural beauty remained for future generations as the cities of Wilmington ...