Talk:Brandywine Creek

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Needs some work e.g. not really true "The confluence of the creek with the Christina was the site of the founding of Fort Christina, the first settlement of the New Sweden colony, in 1638." Fort Christina is on the other side of downtown Wilmington from Brandywine creek. It could use something about: the huge drop in elevation which led to the "water wheel industrialization" in the area, e.g. along the race and

DuPont's gunpowder mills. Also the first major ecological disaster in the US (damned dams stopped the fish runs). The school of painting, etc. Obviously I need to brush up on some of this before writing it down.

But don't some real Wilmingtonites read this. Please contribute!!

[edit] a real Wilmingtonian comments

yes the article is lacking a bit, but I am not an expert. One glaring error I am very aware of are both references to Brandywine Creek State Park. The author has confiused this with Brandywine Park, which is a city park once under county management but now under State Park management. Brandywine Creek State Park is something else. It is upstream from the city and still further up from Hagley Museum. It is an entirely rural park and situated in the countryside (what reamins of it). It is a common mistake and locals here confuse them all the time. To make matters even more confusing, is another New Castle County Park called "Brandywine Springs" which is not even on the Brandywine, but is on the Red Clay Creek and is situated a few miles west of the city. It is the site of a former amusement park.