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!!
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[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.
[edit] Great Pix
Fantastic. Smallbones 18:14, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Box, confluence
The box is nice, but does look a bit clumsy. Maybe some re-ordering of the pix would work. The confluence is listed in the box as being in east Bradford township, whereas I had put a week or so ago that it is in Pocopson Township. Checking further at http://www.eastbradford.org/publicinfo/Maps/OfficialMap_122305.pdf it looks like (far south west corner of map) that it is on the border between the two. It looks like a minor point to go into much detail about, but I may do something here. Smallbones 09:37, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
- The relocation of the picture is definitely better. As for the location of the confluence, I totally missed the statement about Pocopson Township, so between the 2 of us, we make a good team in figuring out its actually the boundary. VerruckteDan 22:03, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Possibly useful sources
This is a nice start - needs lots more references. Here is the DCNR page on the Brandywine creek watershed. Here are the USGS GNIS pages for Brandywine Creek (with alternate names listed), and its East and West Branches. At some point I will add data from the PA Gazetteer of Streams II which lists lengths, watershed areas, elevation of source and mouth, etc. All three streams are included in this book. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 01:41, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
