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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.
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 ...
Bancroft Mills is an abandoned mill complex along Brandywine Creek in Wilmington, Delaware, United States.It has been the site of some of the earliest and most famous mills near Wilmington and was the largest and longest running complex along the Brandywine.
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 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 ...
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 and its tributary, Red Clay Creek, drain a further 28% of the basin (161 square miles, 420 km 2).
Brandywine Creek • average: 2.65 cu ft/s (0.075 m 3 /s) at mouth with Brandywine Creek [5] Basin features; Progression: west-southwest [4] River system: Delaware River: Tributaries • left: unnamed tributaries • right: Hurricane Run: Bridges: Shipley Road, Tunison Drive, Rockfield Drive S, US 202
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 contributing sites, and three contributing structures. The district encompasses ...