page_title: Brandywine Creek (Christina River tributary)
section_title: See also
hierarchical_section_title: Brandywine Creek (Christina River tributary) / See also
caption_attribution_description: English: Canoeing on the Brandywine, near Pocopson, PA Labor Day, 2009
context_page_description: Brandywine Creek is a tributary of the Christina River in southeastern Pennsylvania and northern Delaware in the United States. The Lower Brandywine is 20.4 miles long and is a designated Pennsylvania Scenic River with several tributary streams. The East Branch and West Branch of the creek originate within 2 miles of each other on the slopes of Welsh Mountain in Honey Brook Township, Pennsylvania, about 20 miles northwest of their confluence.
  The mouth of the creek on the Christina River in present-day Wilmington, Delaware, is the site of the New Sweden colony, where colonists first landed on March 29, 1638. The Battle of Brandywine was fought around the creek near Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, on September 11, 1777, during the American Revolution. Water powered gristmills in Brandywine Village, near the creek mouth, and the nearby DuPont gunpowder mill were important in developing American industry before the introduction of steam power.
context_section_description: Bancroft Mills
  Brandywine Battlefield Park
  Brandywine Valley Railroad
  Chaddsford Winery
  East Branch Brandywine Creek
  Eleutherian Mills
  Forks of the Brandywine Presbyterian Church
  Longwood Gardens
  Nemours Mansion and Gardens
  Preston Lea
  Rockland, Delaware
  William Lea
  West Branch Brandywine Creek
  Wilmington State Parks
  List of Delaware rivers
  List of rivers of Pennsylvania
caption: Canoeing near Pocopson
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