Wilmington, Delaware (usa)

Wilmington, Delaware

Wilmington, Delaware ranks 455th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Donetsk, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Cali. Memorable people born in Wilmington, Delaware include Daniel Nathans, John Backus, and Elisabeth Shue. Memorable people who died in Wilmington, Delaware include Gunning Bedford Jr., Neilia Hunter Biden, and John Dickinson. Wilmington, Delaware has been the birth place of many actors, and politicians and the death place of many politicians, and companions. Wilmington, Delaware is located in United States.

Wilmington is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Delaware. The city was built on the site of Fort Christina, the first Swedish settlement in North America. It lies at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine Creek, near where the Christina flows into the Delaware River. It is the county seat of New Castle County and one of the major cities in the Delaware Valley metropolitan area. Wilmington was named by Proprietor Thomas Penn after his friend Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, who was prime minister during the reign of George II of Great Britain. Read more on Wikipedia