Wilmington, Delaware Wilmington, Delaware Downtown Wilmington and the Christina River Downtown Wilmington and the Christina River Official seal of Wilmington, Delaware Location in New Castle County and the state of Delaware.
Location in New Castle County and the state of Delaware.
Wilmington is positioned in Delaware Wilmington - Wilmington Location inside the state of Delaware Wilmington (Lenape: Paxahakink, Pakehakink) is the biggest city in the state of Delaware, United States, assembled on the site of Fort Christina, the first Swedish settlement in North America.
It is positioned at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine River, near where the Christina flows into the Delaware River.
It is the governmental center of county of New Castle County and one of the primary cities in the Delaware Valley urbane area.
Wilmington was titled by Proprietor Thomas Penn after his friend Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, who was prime minister in the reign of George II of Great Britain.
As of the 2015 United States Enumeration estimate, the populace of the town/city is 71,948, reflecting an increase of 1.5% from the 2010 Census. The Wilmington Metropolitan Division, comprising New Castle County, DE, Cecil County, MD and Salem County, NJ, had an estimated 2015 populace of 723,341. And the Delaware Valley urbane area, which includes the metros/cities of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Camden, New Jersey, had a 2015 populace of 6,069,875, and a combined statistical region of 7,183,479. 10 Wilmington Riverfront 11.3 Portrayal of Wilmington in prominent culture 12.1 Port of Wilmington See also: Timeline of Wilmington, Delaware Wilmington is assembled on the site of Fort Christina and the settlement Kristinehamn, the first Swedish settlement in North America.
The region now known as Wilmington was settled by the Lenape (or Delaware Indian) band led by Sachem (Chief) Mattahorn just before Henry Hudson sailed up the Len-api Hanna ("People Like Me River", present Delaware River) in 1609.
Fort Christina served as the command posts for the colony of New Sweden which consisted of, for the most part, the lower Delaware River region (parts of present-day Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey), but several colonists settled there. Dr.
Timothy Stidham (Swedish:Timen Lulofsson Stiddem) was a prominent citizen and doctor in Wilmington.
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A borough charter was granted in 1739 by King George II, which changed the name of the settlement from Willington, after Thomas Willing (the first developer of the land, who organized the region in a grid pattern similar to that of its northern neighbor Philadelphia), to Wilmington, presumably after Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington.
Although amid the American Revolutionary War only one small battle was fought in Delaware, British troops occupied Wilmington shortly after the close-by Battle of Brandywine on September 11, 1777.
military. Located on the banks of the Brandywine River, the village was eventually took in by Wilmington city.
By 1868, Wilmington was producing more iron ships than the rest of the nation combined and it rated first in the manufacturing of gunpowder and second in carriages and leather.
Due to the prosperity Wilmington appreciateed amid the war, town/city merchants and manufacturers period Wilmington's residentiary boundaries westward in the form of large homes along tree-lined streets.
William Poole Bancroft, a prosperous Wilmington businessman influenced by the work of Frederick Law Olmsted, led the accomplishment to establish open parkland in Wilmington.
In the 1950s, more citizens began living in the suburbs of North Wilmington and commuting into the town/city to work.
This was made possible by extensive upgrades to region roads and highways and through the assembly of Interstate 95, which cut through a several of Wilmington's neighborhoods and accelerated the city's populace decline.
deployed the National Guard and the Delaware State Police to the town/city at the request of Mayor John Babiarz.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 17.0 square miles (44 km2).
The town/city sits at the confluence of the Christina River and the Delaware River, about 33 miles (53 km) southwest of Philadelphia.
Wilmington is served by I-95 and I-495 inside town/city limits.
In addition, the twin-span Delaware Memorial Bridge, a several miles south of the city, provides direct highway access between Delaware and New Jersey, carrying the I-295 easterly bypass route around Wilmington and Philadelphia, as well as US 40, which continues eastward to Atlantic City, New Jersey.
These transit links and geographic adjacency give Wilmington some of the characteristics of a satellite town/city to Philadelphia, but Wilmington's long history as Delaware's principal city, its urban core, and its autonomous value as a company destination makes it more properly considered a small but autonomous town/city in the Philadelphia urbane area.
This watershed line runs along Delaware Avenue westward from 10th Street and Market Street.
Greenville, Delaware Talleyville, Delaware Bellefonte, Delaware Wilmington, Delaware Newport, Delaware New Castle, Delaware Pennsville, New Jersey Wilmington has a warm temperate climate or humid subtropical climate (Koppen Cfa), with hot and humid summers, cool to cold winters, and rain evenly spread throughout the year.
Climate data for Wilmington, Delaware (New Castle County Airport), 1981 2010 normals, extremes 1894 present Average snowy days ( 0.1 in) 4.3 3.6 1.3 0.4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.2 2.0 11.8 The Wilmington City Council consists of thirteen members.
The Mayor of Wilmington is also propel by the entire city.
The current mayor of Wilmington is Mike Purzycki (D). Young Correctional Institution, retitled from Multi-Purpose Criminal Justice Facility in 2004 and housing both pretrial and posttrial male prisoners, is positioned in Wilmington.
Many Wilmington City workers belong to one of a several Locals of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union. Typical sign on primary thoroughfares entering Wilmington The town/city of Wilmington is made up of the following neighborhoods: Brandywine Hills This neighborhood of approximately 225 homes in northern Wilmington was started in the 1930s.
Midtown Brandywine Located on the banks of the Brandywine River, Midtown Brandywine is bordered by North Washington Street, East 11th Street, North French Street and South Park Drive.
Midtown Brandywine's boundaries include the Brandywine Park, Fletcher Brown Park, the Hercules building, a neighborhood adopted pocket park, and a several notable restaurants and eateries.
The cemetery of the Wilmington Friends House is the burial site of the abolitionist Thomas Garrett and John Dickinson, signer of the U.S.
The neighborhood is presently home to landmarks such as the Wilmington Blue Rocks' Baseball Stadium and the Shipyard Shops.
Trinity Vicinity This neighborhood is positioned in the center of Wilmington, next to the Trinity Church and Interstate 95.
Browntown areas in the town/city that were originally populated by Polish immigrants.
The Flats The Flats was established by businessman William Bancroft who advanced the neighborhood in 1901 under the Woodlawn Company, now known as the Woodlawn Trustees, with the intention of creating affordable homes for working class inhabitants of Wilmington.
The neighborhood exists northeast of Delaware Avenue, southwest of Riddle Avenue, east of Union Street and west of Du - Pont Street, with Lovering Avenue as its easterly boundary. The Highlands positioned between Pennsylvania Avenue and Delaware Avenue, the Highlands neighborhood, centered on 18th Street southeast of Rockford Park, was advanced by Joshua Heald in the 19th century for well-to-do, middle-class residents.
Hilltop This region located along 4th Street and roughly bordered by Lancaster Avenue, Jackson Street, Clayton Street has remained one of the most diverse neighborhoods in the town/city since the late 19th century.
Its locale is adjoining to the initial Wilmington Country Club, bounded by Ogle Avenue, Dupont Road, the Wilmington High School property and the Ed "Porky" Oliver Golf Course.
The City of Wilmington designates nine areas as historic districts: the Baynard Boulevard, Kentmere Parkway, Rockford Park, Cool Spring/Tilton Park, the tri-part sections of the Eastside, St.
In 2010, Wilmington had 27 homicides, breaking the two-year-old record of 26. In 2011, improve mobilization against crime was reported to be on the rise in the city. In 2012, Parenting periodical called Wilmington the nation's most dangerous town/city on a per capita basis. Between 2003 and 2012, an average of 560 vehicles were stolen in Wilmington each year. In March 2014, Movoto Real Estate rated Wilmington the most dangerous small town/city in the country. The Wilmington Police Department (WPD), which aims to "raise the level of enhance safety through law enforcement and thereby reduce the fear and incidence of crime", is authorized to deploy up to 289 officers in motor vehicles, on foot, and on bicycle.
The Wilmington Fire Department (WFD) is led by Chief Anthony S.
The department has a ridealong program to help recruit new firefighters. It requires firefighters to be regularly involved with improve associations. Wilmington is the only municipality in Delaware with an all-career fire department. Advanced Life Support services in the City of Wilmington are provided by New Castle County's EMS Division with two city-based medic units.
On July 1, 2009, the nationwide financial crisis and projected town/city budget shortfall led the department to lay off firefighters for the first time in town/city history. Eight of the department's 173 uniformed personnel were laid off, but returned to work inside 13 months to replace retiring personnel. The department also launched began a rolling by-pass of three engine companies (Engine 5, Squirt 4, and Engine 6). Later, the town/city eliminated its only heavy rescue company, Rescue 1; its personnel were deployed to other companies.
Christiana Care Health System, a community network headquartered in Wilmington, runs Wilmington Hospital on the edge of downtown Wilmington and Christiana Hospital in suburban Christiana, as well as various satellite community centers throughout the area.
Francis Hospital, a member of CHE Trinity Health, is positioned in the west end of Wilmington.
du - Pont Hospital for Children in North Wilmington, just outside the town/city proper.
The town/city has one of the highest per capita rates of HIV infection in the United States, with excessive rates of infection among black males. Efforts by small-town promotes to problematic needle exchange programs to reduce the spread of infection were obstructed for a several years by downstate and suburban state legislators but a program was finally allowed in June 2006. WSFS Bank's command posts in downtown Wilmington Much of Wilmington's economy is based on its status as the most crowded and readily accessible town/city in Delaware, a state that made itself attractive to corporations with business-friendly financial laws and a longstanding reputation for a fair and effective judicial system.
Contributing to the economic community of the downtown and Wilmington Riverfront regions has been the existence of Wilmington Station, through which 665,000 citizens passed in 2009. Many primary credit card issuers, including Bank of America (formerly MBNA Corporation), Chase Card Services (part of JPMorgan Chase & Co., formerly Bank One/First USA), and Barclays Bank of Delaware (formerly Juniper Bank), are headquartered in Wilmington.
internet banking unit, ING Direct (now Capital One 360), in Wilmington.
The United Kingdom's HSBC has their American operations headquartered in Wilmington.
Wilmington Trust is headquartered in Wilmington at Rodney Square.
In 1988, the Delaware council enacted a law which required a would-be acquirer to capture 85 percent of a Delaware chartered corporation's stock in a single transaction or wait three years before proceeding.
Wilmington's other notable industries include insurance (American Life Insurance Company [ALICO], Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Delaware), retail banking (including the Delaware command posts of: Wilmington Trust (Now a branch of M&T Bank, after Wilmington Trust consolidated with M&T in 2011), PNC Bank, Wachovia Bank, JPMorgan Chase, HSBC, Citizens Bank, Wilmington Savings Fund Society, and Artisans' Bank), and legal services.
A General Motors plant was closed in 2009. Wilmington is home to one Fortune 500 company, E.I.
Because Delaware is the official state of incorporation for so many American companies, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, positioned in Wilmington, is one of the busiest of the 94 federal bankruptcy courts positioned around the U.S.
According to Wilmington's 2015 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: 1 State of Delaware 13,000 Departing from earlier practices, the 2014 Comprehensive Annual Report that is presently available declined to identify the city's top employers. It is possible this knowledge will be included, consistent with past reports, when a final version of the report is publicized as mandated by City Charter. Wilmington has many exhibitions, arcades, and plant nurseries to appreciate (see Points of Interest below), as well as many ethnic celebrations and other affairs throughout the year.
Wilmington has an active and diverse ethnic population, which contributes to a several ethnic celebrations held every spring and summer in Wilmington, the most prominent of which is the Italian Festival.
Haneef's African Festival jubilates the tradition of the African American majority in the city. Wilmington is also home to the annual Big August Quarterly, which since 1814 has jubilated African American theological freedom.
India - Fest, another cultural festival, is hosted by the Indo American Association of Delaware. Wilmington also jubilates Hispanic Week, which coincides with National Hispanic Month festivities, September 15 October 15.
The Clifford Brown Jazz Festival is a seven-day outside music festival held each summer in Wilmington's Rodney Square.
The Peoples' Festival is an annual tribute to Bob Marley, who once lived in Wilmington trying to earn cash enough to establish his Tuff Gong music studio in Kingston, Jamaica.
The festival is held on the Wilmington riverfront each summer.
Annual tree-lighting ceremony related to the Christmas holiday at Rockwood Museum and Park The Nutcracker performed by the Wilmington Ballet at the Playhouse at the Hotel Du - Pont.
The Kalmar Nyckel with the Wilmington horizon in the background In the 1990s, the town/city launched a campaign to revitalize the former shipyard region known as the Wilmington Riverfront.
Delaware Theatre Company was at the forefront of this movement, opening its current space on Water Street in 1985. The accomplishments were bolstered early by The Big Kahuna also known as Kahunaville (a restaurant, bar and arcade which has also since closed and been rebuilt in 2010 as the Delaware Children's Museum) and the Wilmington Blue Rocks minor league baseball stadium.
The Wilmington Rowing Center boathouse is positioned along the Christina River on the Riverfront.
Development continues as the Wilmington Riverfront tries to establish its cultural, economical, and residentiary importance.
On June 7, 2006, the groundbreaking of Justison Landing signaled the beginning of Wilmington's biggest residentiary universal since Bancroft Park was assembled after World War II.
See also: List of newspapers in Delaware, List of airways broadcasts in Delaware, and List of tv stations in Delaware The Wilmington region is home to five FM airways broadcasts and four AM airways broadcasts.
A sixth FM airways broadcast is positioned in Southern New Jersey and is encompassed in the Wilmington radio market surveys: 91.3-FM WVUD Non-commercial radio (University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware) Wilmington Sunday Star (between 1881 1954) Portrayal of Wilmington in prominent culture Wilmington's horizon and other aerial shots of the town/city stood in for the fictional town of Arcadia in the tv program Joan of Arcadia. The 1999 film Fight Club (adapted from Chuck Palahniuk's novel of the same title) is set in Wilmington.
City officials rejected the filmmakers' request to film in Delaware, so the movie's exterior shots were filmed in Los Angeles.
In the movie The Wrestler, the character portrayed by Mickey Rourke has his final match in Wilmington.
In the James Patterson novel Cat and Mouse, one of the crimes takes place in Wilmington.
In episode 4 of season 1 of the 1970s TV series The Incredible Hulk, called "The Final Round", David Banner comes to Wilmington, gets mugged, and befriends a boxer who is unknowingly running heroin for a mob boss.
Saturday Night Live (SNL) skits portraying Vice President Joe Biden often mention his residency in Wilmington.
For example, in the cold opening of the May 12, 2012, episode, Biden pouts in his Washington, D.C., bedroom, which features an aerial picture of the downtown Wilmington horizon with "DELAWARE" printed along the bottom. In The Bourne Legacy, protagonist Aaron Cross flees to Wilmington, among other places.
Wilmington is so well known for crime that in November 2015, ABC announced a pilot for a legal drama starring Jada Pinkett Smith set in the city.
Wilmington Station Wilmington is served by the Joseph R.
Wilmington Rail Station, with incessant service between Boston, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C., via Amtrak's Northeast Corridor.
Amtrak has a primary maintenance shop and yard in northeast Wilmington that maintains and rebuilds the agency's Northeast Corridor electric locomotive fleet.
The Amtrak Training Facility is also positioned in Wilmington, as well as Amtrak's Consolidated National Operations Center (CNOC).
Two freight barns s, CSX and Norfolk Southern, also serve Wilmington.
Each has a primary freight-yard in the area; CSX operates the Wilsmere Yard to the west of the town/city and Norfolk Southern operates the Edgemoor Yard to the northeast of the city.
DART First State (Delaware Authority for Regional Transit) operates enhance bus service with approximately 40 bus lines serving the town/city and the encircling suburbs as well as inter-county service to Dover, the state capital, and cyclic service to Rehoboth Beach on the Atlantic Ocean.
Interstate 95, which splits Wilmington roughly into easterly and halves, provides access to primary markets in the Northeast and nationwide.
Interstate 495 is a bypass just east of the city, and Interstate 295 is south of the city, crossing the Delaware River into New Jersey on the Delaware Memorial Bridge.
A several miles south of Wilmington is Wilmington Airport, which serves as a base for both the Delaware Army National Guard and Delaware Air National Guard.
Main article: Port of Wilmington (Delaware) Wilmington is also served by the Port of Wilmington, a undivided full-service deepwater port and marine terminal handling over 400 vessels per year with an annual import/export cargo tonnage of 5 million tons.
The Port of Wilmington handles mostly global imports of fruits and vegetables, automobiles, steel, and bulk products.
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Since their beginning in 2015, the USA Rugby League expansion club Delaware Black Foxes have been based in the town/city at Eden Park Stadium.
In 2013, Bearfight FC of Wilmington was established as the only United States Adult Soccer Association hailing from Delaware, qualifying them as the sole representative of The First State in the Lamar Hunt U.S.
In 2010, Sporting News ranked Wilmington 351st on its list of the 400 Best Sports Towns, behind two lesser Delaware cities, Newark (218) and Dover (208). The Wilmington State Parks are a group of four parks in Wilmington directed by the Delaware State Park system.
The parks are patrolled by Delaware State Park Rangers whose command posts office is in Brandywine Park. The City of Wilmington also operates 55 parks and recreational facilities athwart the city.
The course has rotated every several years based on sponsorship and is presently positioned in close-by Delaware City.
From the starting line at Wilmington's Rodney Square, runners flow past the scenic revitalized riverfront, through Rockford Park and back to Rodney Square at the Caesar Rodney statue.
The Wilmington Grand Prix is held annually and is considered one of the premier criterium-style bike competitions in the country.
Weekend festivities include a street festival, a time trial on Monkey Hill, criterium competitions in downtown Wilmington at both the amateur and pro level, a 50 km (31 mi) Media Fondo, a 100km (62 mi) Gran Fondo, and a leisurely Governor's Ride.
Additionally, the East Coast Greenway passes through Wilmington and its immediate suburbs for 10.4 miles as part of the scenic Northern Delaware Greenway, which includes steep hills, heavily forested sections and paved portions that lead through downtown. Wilmington Public Library on Rodney Square.
Wilmington is served by the Brandywine, Christina, and Red Clay school districts for elementary, junior high, and high school enhance education.
The New Castle County Vocational-Technical School District operates Howard High School of Technology in the town/city of Wilmington.
However, the subsequent eleven school districts that were created in the county, including the Wilmington School District, soon became de facto segregated, as the Wilmington School District became predominately black, and the districts outside the town/city remained overwhelmingly white.
Buchanan implemented a plan by which students in Wilmington would be bused to attend school in the suburbs for certain grades, while suburban students would be bused into the City of Wilmington for other grades.
By 1981, the four current districts in northern New Castle County, Brandywine, Christina, Colonial, and Red Clay, each composed of town/city and suburban areas, were established.
However, Colonial School District no longer serves any portion of the town/city of Wilmington.
There are many private elementary and secondary schools in Wilmington: Salesianum School, Serviam Girls Academy, Nativity Preparatory of Wilmington, Ursuline Academy, Wilmington Friends School, The Tatnall School, Tower Hill School, St.
With 17.6% of its students enrolled in private schools, Wilmington rates as one of the top ten metros/cities in the country. Wilmington also hosts two charter schools, including the Charter School of Wilmington, and East Side Charter School, and a magnet school, Cab Calloway School of the Arts which focuses on the performing arts.
The Charter School of Wilmington and Cab Calloway School of the Arts are homed in the building of the former Wilmington High School.
There are a several colleges operating in the town/city of Wilmington: Delaware Technical & Community College Wilmington Campus Drexel University Wilmington Campus Springfield College Wilmington Campus University of Delaware Wilmington Campus and Downtown Building See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Wilmington, Delaware Wilmington Blue Rocks, Carolina League baseball Wilmington Drama League Wilmington, Delaware The Wilmington Library Wilmington Riverfront Wilmington State Parks which includes Brandywine Park Wilmington has six sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International: List of citizens from Wilmington, Delaware List of Wilmington Mayors National Register of Historic Places listings in Wilmington, Delaware List of tallest buildings in Wilmington, Delaware "Estimates of Resident Population Change and Rankings: July 1, 2014 to July 1, 2015 - United States -- Metropolitan Statistical Area; and for Puerto Rico".
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