Photo Album A Visit to Wilmington After 1975
(Unless
otherwise noted, all photos from HAR personal collection)
Mullins Store, Market
St.
I-95, looking South from 5th St.
5th & Bayard Ave., 'The Flats'
2nd & Market Sts.
5th & Market Sts.
Site where Wilmington Dry Goods Store was located
- From King Street looking towards Market Street
An abandoned Pennsylvania Rail Road
line, North of Newark, DE on Rt 896
Row Houses near Trinity Episcopal Church (Submitted by Donata Lewandowski
Guerra)
Row Houses North of Pennsylvania/Delaware Avenue (Submitted
by Donata Lewandowski Guerra)
2nd & Market Streets
4th & Market Streets
5th & Market Streets
3rd & Market Streets
Lower Market Street
Old B&O Freight Station, S.
Market Street
DP&L Building
Farmers Bank Building
Queen Theater
Dravo Shipyard crane
6th Street near Springer Street - Old Woodlawn Branch
of Wilmington Library entrance
Delaware Trust Building - tower section being removed
Dravo Shipyard area today - now Riverwalk
Pennsylvania Railroad
GG1's sitting at the Wilmington Yards.
They were the workhorse of the Pennsy,
PennCentral, Amtrak & Conrail.
Not long after these photos,
all but a few
of the 136 built were destroyed. Those few are now in train museums!
A view of construction of Delaware
Rt. 141 in Newport (1976) (DelDOT photo)
The crossroads of Rt. 40 and Rt.
896 (1976) (DelDOT photo)