Introduction to Market Street walking tour in Wilmington, Delaware--draft August 2012

5. …the other moved rapidly
through rocky hills.

9. Where’s
Willingtown?

10. Advent of the Railroad, 1837

11. Wilmington Population
45,000
40,000
35,000
30,000
25,000
20,000
15,000
10,000
5,000
0
1840 1850 1860 1870 1880

12. Banks of Market Street

13. 500 block at Christmas
around 1930
Early morning view
of 500 block in 2012

15. Empty lots are like missing
teeth in the face of the
cityscape

16. Grand Opera House
restored and
revitalized in 1976
Old Town Hall saved from
demolition in 1917 and
repurposed as a museum

18. Transplanted houses in
Willingtown Square

19. 400 block:
Revitalization at work in 2012