Walkabout Wilmington – A stroll through the city Archive


Streets, traffic lights, highway signs and bridges that help make up the Wilmington, Delaware city scape. Photos are cataloged by street and ordered from south to north or west to east.

Delaware Avenue, Clayton Street south and a one block section of 16th Street east come together at a five way intersection by Trolley Square. Home to a shopping center now, Trolley Square is the historic location of the Wilmington street car barn. 04/01/04

Street level signals at Delaware Avenue and Clayton Street were replaced my modern mast-arm assemblies by 2007. 04/01/04

Street level signals at Delaware Avenue and Clayton Street were replaced my modern mast-arm assemblies by 2007. 04/01/04

Clayton Street ends one block west of Delaware Avenue a tGilpin Avenue and a trail into Brandywine Park. 04/01/04

Dupont Street provides a through street south from Augustine Cutoff to Trolley Square and Delaware 52 (Pennsylvania Avenue). Delaware Avenue intersects the street by the CSX Railroad overpass and Kellys Logan House tavern. Mast arm signals replaced all 30" street level signals here by 2007. 04/01/04

Dupont Street provides a through street south from Augustine Cutoff to Trolley Square and Delaware 52 (Pennsylvania Avenue). Delaware Avenue intersects the street by the CSX Railroad overpass and Kellys Logan House tavern. Mast arm signals replaced all 30" street level signals here by 2007. 04/01/04

Dupont Street provides a through street south from Augustine Cutoff to Trolley Square and Delaware 52 (Pennsylvania Avenue). Delaware Avenue intersects the street by the CSX Railroad overpass and Kellys Logan House tavern. Mast arm signals replaced all 30" street level signals here by 2007. 04/01/04

Dupont Street provides a through street south from Augustine Cutoff to Trolley Square and Delaware 52 (Pennsylvania Avenue). Delaware Avenue intersects the street by the CSX Railroad overpass and Kellys Logan House tavern. Mast arm signals replaced all 30" street level signals here by 2007. 04/01/04

The CSX Railroad overpass across Delaware Avenue at Trolley Square once was a part of a passenger train station. The sidewalk portion of the bridge was dismantled in the 1990s. 04/01/04

Traffic signals were installed at Delaware Avenue and Scott Street in the mid 1990s. Scott Street carries two-way traffic south to 14th Street and north to Lovering Avenue by Augustine Cutoff. 04/01/04

Union Street and Delaware Avenue intersect in the Forty Acres community. Delaware Avenue ends seven blocks to the north at Rockford Park. Eagle signals here were replaced after 2008. 04/01/04

Union Street and Delaware Avenue intersect in the Forty Acres community. Delaware Avenue ends seven blocks to the north at Rockford Park. Eagle signals here were replaced after 2008. 04/01/04

Union Street ends in four blocks east of Delaware Avenue at Lovering Avenue near the Delaware Art Museum. 04/01/04

The north section of French Street extends between Eighth and Sixteenth Streets. This view looked north at 14th Street in the Upper East Side of Wilmington. 03/30/04

A two block section of French Street connects Wilmington Train Station with Second Street (Delaware 48) at LOMA (Lower Market). 03/30/04

An I-95 trailblazer directs motorists north from Wilmington Train Station to use 2nd Street west one block to the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard ramps to the Wilmington Viaduct. 03/30/04

Facing Downtown Wilmington on French Street south at Fourteenth Street. Eagle Mark IV signals replaced this vintage set of signals by 2007. 03/30/04
Photos by Alex Nitzman
References:
- Delaware Historic Bridges
http://www.deldot.net/static/ projects/archaeology/historic_pres/ delaware_bridge_book/bridge_toc.html, Delaware Department of Transportation.
Page Updated Friday May 26, 2017.