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A Walking Tour of Wilmington’s West Side, Delaware
Even before I-95 severed it from center city Wilmington, the west side of the city had developed its own sense of identity. A richly diverse population migrated to this residential area including pockets of Italians, Greeks and Irish, many of whom found work in the flour and gunpowder mills a short distance away on the Brandywine River.
When the trolley lines extended out west of center city in the late 1800s it became more convenient for commuters to live away from the downtown offices and long-time farms were converted into tony developments clustered around such wide parkways as Bancroft and Kentmere.
This walking tour will begin at the gateway to Wilmington’s West Side, a small triangular park at the intersection of Delaware and Pennsylvania avenues...
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