Christina River

The Christina River is a river in southeastern Pennsylvania and northern Delaware that flows into the Delaware River at Wilmington.

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Brandywine Creek: A stream in Pennsylvania and Delaware that joins the Christina River at Wilmington. It is the Christina’s major tributary and meets it near the river’s mouth.
Lenape: An Indigenous people whose ancestral homeland includes parts of the Delaware Valley. The river’s name derives from the Lenape name for the stream.
Port of Wilmington: A seaport in Wilmington, Delaware, at the confluence of the Christina and Delaware rivers. Its facilities use the Christina’s lower reach for commercial shipping.
Christina Park: A waterfront park along the Christina River in Wilmington, Delaware. It is a prominent public space on the river’s urban shoreline.
White Clay Creek: A creek flowing through southeastern Pennsylvania and northern Delaware into the Christina River. It adds water to the Christina upstream of Wilmington.
New Sweden: A Swedish colony established along the Delaware River in the seventeenth century. Its settlers founded Fort Christina near the river’s confluence in 1638.
Christina Riverwalk: A waterfront trail and public space along the Christina River in Wilmington. It provides public access to a riverfront shaped by former industrial uses.
Fort Christina State Park: A Delaware state park marking the site of the 1638 Swedish landing near Wilmington. The historic landing site sits beside the river named for the settlement.
Red Clay Creek: A creek in Pennsylvania and Delaware that joins White Clay Creek near Newark, Delaware. Its watershed contributes flow to the Christina through White Clay Creek.
Fort Christina: A Swedish colonial settlement established in 1638 near present-day Wilmington, Delaware. The river takes its name from this early Swedish settlement.