34 Facts About Wilmington Delaware

Wilmington Delaware was named by Proprietor Thomas Penn after his friend Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington Delaware, who was prime minister during the reign of George II of Great Britain.

Wilmington Delaware is built on the site of Fort Christina and the settlement Kristinehamn, the first Swedish settlement in North America.

Wilmington Delaware was born in 1610, probably in Hammel, Denmark, and raised in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Wilmington Delaware arrived in New Sweden in 1654 and is recorded as the first physician in Delaware.

Wilmington Delaware was succeeded by Johan Rising, who upon his arrival in 1654, seized the Dutch post Fort Casimir, located at the site of the present town of New Castle, which was built by the Dutch in 1651.

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Wilmington Delaware, though officially remaining a member of the Union, was a border state and divided in its support of both the Confederate and the Union causes.

The war created enormous demand for goods and materials supplied by Wilmington Delaware including ships, railroad cars, gunpowder, shoes, and other war-related goods.

William Poole Bancroft, a successful Wilmington Delaware businessman influenced by the work of Frederick Law Olmsted, led the effort to establish open parkland in Wilmington Delaware.

The Wilmington Delaware River here is an estuary at sea level, providing sea-level access for ocean-going ships.

Wilmington Delaware has a warm temperate climate or humid subtropical climate, with hot and humid summers, cool to cold winters, and precipitation evenly spread throughout the year.

Wilmington Delaware has recently overcome its safety woes and is "safer now than it's ever been" with crime at its lowest rate in recent history.

Wilmington Delaware frequently appears on NeighborhoodScout's "Top 100 Most Dangerous Cities in the United States" list.

In 2017, Wilmington Delaware was ranked as the 5th most dangerous city in the US.

Wilmington Delaware was the first city in the United States to monitor the entire business district using video monitoring.

Advanced Life Support services in the City of Wilmington Delaware are provided by New Castle County's EMS Division with two city-based medic units.

In 1988, the Wilmington Delaware legislature enacted a law which required a would-be acquirer to capture 85 percent of a Wilmington Delaware chartered corporation's stock in a single transaction or wait three years before proceeding.

Wilmington Delaware chartered corporations rely on the state's Court of Chancery to decide legal disputes, which places legal decisions with a judge instead of a jury.

Wilmington Delaware has many museums, galleries, and gardens, as well as many ethnic festivals and other events throughout the year.

Wilmington Delaware has an active and diverse ethnic population, which contributes to several ethnic festivals held every spring and summer in Wilmington Delaware, the most popular of which is the Italian Festival.

Wilmington Delaware is home to the annual Big August Quarterly, which since 1814 has celebrated African American religious freedom.

Peoples' Festival is an annual tribute to Bob Marley, who once lived in Wilmington Delaware trying to earn money enough to establish his Tuff Gong music studio in Kingston, Jamaica.

Wilmington Delaware's son Stephen Marley was born in Wilmington 1972.

Development continues as the Wilmington Delaware Riverfront tries to establish its cultural, economical, and residential importance.

Wilmington Delaware area is home to five FM radio stations and four AM radio stations.

Parking in downtown Wilmington Delaware is regulated by on-street parking meters along with commercial parking lots and parking garages operated by the Wilmington Delaware Parking Authority, Colonial Parking, and SP Plus Corporation.

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Amtrak has a major maintenance shop and yard in northeast Wilmington Delaware that maintains and rebuilds the agency's Northeast Corridor electric locomotive fleet.

In 2013, Bearfight FC of Wilmington was founded 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 Open Cup.

City of Wilmington Delaware operates 55 parks and recreational facilities across the city.

Wilmington Delaware Country Club is a country club and golf course located just outside of the city in a suburb known as Greenville.

Wilmington Delaware is served by the Brandywine, Christina, Red Clay, and Colonial school districts for elementary, junior high, and high school public education.

Wilmington Delaware High remained in operation under the Red Clay district until 1999 and it now houses Calloway School of the Arts.

University of Delaware public policy professor Leland Ware wrote that Wilmington parents were divided, with many African-Americans preferring children be educated in the city while others liked the idea of their children attending integrated schools.

In 2020 there were persons in Wilmington Delaware, including the mayor Mike Purzycki, advocating for this as well.

Wilmington Delaware has six sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International:.