Wilmington, DE: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation, Incorporated, 1976. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. 31, [1] pages plus covers. Illustrations. Cover has some wear and soiling. Wilmington 1876 depicts the city in the Centennial year--its streets and shops, houses and people, schools and churches, problems and pastimes, and especially its industries--as Thomas Johnson, who lived and worked there, saw it. Wilmington is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Delaware. The city was built on the site of Fort Christina, the first Swedish settlement in North America. It is at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine River, near where the Christina flows into the Delaware River. It is the county seat of New Castle County and one of the major cities in the Delaware Valley metropolitan area. Wilmington was named by Proprietor Thomas Penn after his friend Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, who was prime minister in the reign of George II of Great Britain. More