DE, USA
Brandywine Creek State Park
Trail
The Brandywine Creek corridor north of Wilmington preserves the waterway whose mills powered the region's economy during the Revolution. The creek's current drove flour, paper, and powder mills essential to Continental Army supply. Walking the trail follows the same waterway that made Wilmington strategically indispensable to both sides in 1777.
Visiting Today
Address
Adams Dam Rd, Wilmington, DE 19807
Connected Events
Aug 1777
Washington Uses Wilmington as Campaign Supply Base
General George Washington
Aug 1777
Howe's Army Lands at Head of Elk
General Sir William Howe
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Battle of Brandywine
General Sir William Howe, Lord Charles Cornwallis, Nathanael Greene, Major General John Sullivan, General George Washington
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Local Knowledge and the Brandywine Flanking Route
Lord Charles Cornwallis
Sep 1777
Lafayette Wounded at Brandywine
Marquis de Lafayette, General George Washington
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American Counterattack at Germantown
General George Washington
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