Riverside–11th Street Bridge
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Riverside–11th Street Bridge is a district in the northeastern section of Wilmington, Delaware.
Geography
Riverside–11th Street Bridge lies north of Brandywine Creek and south off the city line with Edgemoore. The western border is formed by Northeast Boulevard (U.S. Route 13), the other side of which is Price's Run and East Lake neighborhoods, which include the Brandywine Village Historic District. The Northeast Corridor (carrying Amtrak and SEPTA Wilmington/Newark Line) runs alongs the district's eastern side, separating it from the Howard R. Young Correctional Institution in Gander Hill, Amtrak's Wilmington Maintenance Facility, and Norfolk Southern's Shellpot Branch. It roughly corresponds to census tract 30.2{{cite report |last = DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT CITY OF WILMINGTON |title = NEIGHBORHOOD COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT PLAN for the PRICE'S RUN/RIVERSIDE/11th STREET BRIDGE ANALYSIS AREA Census Tracts 6.01, 6.02, & 30.02 |publisher = City of Wilmington |date = August 2012 |url = https://www.wilmingtonde.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/228/636803851441870000 |accessdate = August 15, 2021}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.delawarepublic.org/post/ambitious-plan-remake-wilmington-s-riverside-neighborhood|title=The ambitious plan to remake Wilmington's Riverside neighborhood|first=Larry|last=Nagengast|website=www.delawarepublic.org|date=30 November 2018}}[https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/tract/st10_de/c10003_new_castle/DC10CT_C10003_000.pdf 2010 CENSUS - CENSUS TRACT REFERENCE MAP: New Castle County, DE][https://www.wilmingtonde.gov/home/showdocument?id=442. City of Wilmington Neighborhoods (map)]
History
A wooden bridge built in the 1860s over Brandywine Creek was replaced by a steel drawbridge known as the Eleventh Street Bridge in 1882.{{Cite web|url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/192063|title=Brooklyn Museum|website=www.brooklynmuseum.org}}{{Cite web|url=https://digital.hagley.org/islandora/object/islandora:2108479|title=Eleventh Street Bridge|website=Hagley Digital Archives}} The current Northern Boulevard Bridge was built in 1932.{{Cite web|url=https://bridgehunter.com/de/new-castle/bh91340|title=Northeast Boulevard Brandywine Creek Bridge|website=Bridgehunter.com}}
The neighborhood was the site of the junction of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) Brandywine Branch and its main line at a point called Landlith and ran parallel with the creek on city streets and what has become Brandywine Park.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i6AxAQAAMAAJ&q=LANDLITH+IMPROVEMENT+COMPANY|title=Railroad Gazette|date=August 17, 1901|publisher=Railroad gazette.|via=Google Books}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.abandonedrails.com/brandywine-industrial-track|title=The Brandywine Industrial Track - Abandoned Rails|website=www.abandonedrails.com}}https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/161210137/ The News Journal Wilmington, April 7, 1914 The junction lends its name to the Landlith Interlocking.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1cRPAAAAMAAJ&dq=landlith+wilmington+rail+accident&pg=RA7-PA3|title=Railroad Accident Report: Report no. NTSB-RAR.|first=United States National Transportation Safety|last=Board|date=August 17, 1974|publisher=National Transportation Safety Board|via=Google Books}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rgyZLXpv7NsC&dq=Delaware%3A+LANDLITH&pg=PA81-IA1|title=A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946: Volume 1: The Mid-Atlantic States|first=Richard C.|last=Carpenter|date=August 17, 2003|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=9780801873317|via=Google Books}}
In conjunction with the construction of the Wilmington Rail Viaduct and the Wilmington Shop complex in the early 20th century, developers started building modest workers’ housing in the vicinity of Vandever Avenue at the southern end of the property.{{Cite web|url=https://history.amtrak.com/blogs/blog/a-closer-look-the-wilmington-and-bear-shops|title=A Closer Look: The Wilmington and Bear Shops — Amtrak: History of America's Railroad|website=history.amtrak.com}}
St. James A. U. M. P. Church church site was purchased on Jan. 13, 1872 and the corner-stone laid on October 12, 1884.{{Cite web| title=The churches of Delaware | url=https://archivesfiles.delaware.gov/ebooks/The_Churches_of_Delaware.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190228194556/https://archivesfiles.delaware.gov/ebooks/The_Churches_of_Delaware.pdf | archive-date=2019-02-28}}
The cornerstone of Kingswood Methodist Episcopal Church was laid in 1891.
The Kingswood Community Center started in 1946, when a group of residents came together to create a space for youth afterschool activities, which they found at the Kingswood United Methodist Church. By 1956, the church space became too small for the program, and with financial help of foundations and local philanthropists the current 12-acre (4.9 ha) site on Bowers Street was purchased.{{Cite web|url=https://www.inwilmde.com/blog/kingswood-community-center-heart-riverside-invigoration/|title=Kingswood Community Center Heart of Riverside INvigoration - IN Wilmington|date=December 5, 2018|website=www.inwilmde.com}}{{Cite web|url=http://kgwcc.org/|title=Kingswood Community Center|website=kgwcc.org|access-date=2023-11-01|archive-date=2023-07-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230726223807/https://kgwcc.org/|url-status=dead}}
The E.D. Robinson Urban Farm, also known as the Brandywine Urban Farm, is at Brandywine Street and East 12th Street. Once a debris-covered lot, it was transformed at the initiation of a local bartender, Adrienne Spencer. Named after Eric Robinson, a former City Councilman and neighborhood activist, the farm, has 600 square feet of community gardening and 1,400 square feet of commercial garden space. It has been recognized by the Delaware Center for Horticulture as a model of success in urban agriculture.{{Cite web|url=https://thedch.org/greening/|title=Greening | Delaware Center for Horticulture}}{{Cite web|url=http://seedstock.com/2016/11/08/delaware-urban-farm-offers-residents-oasis-to-grow-crops-in-food-desert/|title=Delaware Urban Farm Offers Residents Oasis to Grow Crops in Food Desert}}
In 2018, Riverside was designated the 19th location to participate in Purpose Built Communities, a public-private initiate to re-invigorate neighborhoods.{{Cite web|url=https://purposebuiltcommunities.org/purpose-built-communities-welcomes-new-network-member-reach-riverside/|title=Purpose Built Communities Welcomes New Network Member REACH Riverside|date=November 30, 2018|website=Purpose Built Communities}}{{Cite web|url=http://reachriverside.org/|title=Reach Riverside - With the Community, For the Community|website=Reach Riverside}} In 2020, the stakeholders announced a townhouse development which includes affordable housing.{{Cite web|url=https://www.pennrose.com/news-views/news/2020/2020-first-phase-of-riverside-redevelopment-closes-on-financing/|title=2020 First Phase of Riverside Redevelopment Closes on Financing|website=www.pennrose.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://delawarebusinesstimes.com/news/reach-riverside-breaks-ground/|title=Riverside redevelopment hits milestone as housing breaks ground - DBT|date=December 30, 2020}}
DART First State operates buses through the district.
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{{Wilmington, Delaware}}
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