Mayfield, Delaware
{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Delaware, United States}}
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Mayfield is a suburban community in New Castle County, Delaware, United States. It was the teenage home of President Joe Biden.
Geography
Mayfield is located southwest of the intersection of Delaware Route 3 and Wilson Road, {{convert|4.5|mi}} northeast of Wilmington{{Cite report |last = L. W. HECK, A. J. WRAIGHT, D. J. ORTH, J. R. CARTER, L. G. VAN WINKLE, and JANET HAZEN |title = Delaware Place Names |work = Geological Survey Bulletin 1245 |publisher = Government Printing Office (U.S.A.) |year = 1966 |url = https://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/1245/report.pdf
}} in the Brandywine Hundred.
History
Mayfield was developed in the 1950s and is described as being at the time a "rapidly growing middle-class community", where "many fathers were accountants, lawyers, and chemists..."{{cite web |last = Ebert |first = Jennifer |title = Joe Biden's houses – see the impressive property portfolio of the 46th President of the United States |publisher = Homes and Gardens |date = January 20, 2021 |url = https://www.homesandgardens.com/news/joe-biden-house |accessdate = September 18, 2021 |quote = In 1955, when he was 13 years old, the family moved to Mayfield, Delaware – a rapidly growing middle-class community. It was here where Biden would set up home with his current wife...}}
Mayfield is the site of the teenage home of U.S. politician Joe Biden, who moved to Mayfield in 1955 with his family when he was 13 and lived in a typical split-level house on Wilson Road.{{cite news |title = Freshman Elect Archmere |newspaper = The News Journal |date = November 16, 1961 |url = https://www.newspapers.com/clip/36302163/1961-11-16-elected-class-president/ |accessdate = September 18, 2021}}{{cite news |last = John M. Broder |first = John M. Broder |title = Father's Tough Life an Inspiration for Biden |newspaper = The New York Times |date = October 23, 2008 |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/us/politics/24biden.html |accessdate = September 18, 2021 |quote = the Bidens moved to a nondescript split-level home on Wilson Road}} In his book Promises to Keep he says of Mayfield:
"The houses in my neighborhood, Mayfield, had sprouted just a few years earlier from what had been a flat and treeless farm field. There wasn't a spot of shade in the neighborhood. The streets were smooth, fast, and narrow—built for speed. They were great for bike races and whiffle ball. But everything there felt squared off, as if in perfect obeisance to the suburban God of Right Angles. Uniformity ruled. Every roof had the same pitch."{{Citation |last = Biden |first = Joe |title = Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics |publisher = Random House |year = 2007 |isbn = 9781400065363}}
References
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Category:Unincorporated communities in New Castle County, Delaware