Mid-town Brandywine in Wilmington in New Castle County, Delaware — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)

Washington Street Bridge

World War I Memorial

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1. Washington Street Bridge Marker

Inscription. Washington Street
Bridge Commission
Created by
the General Assembly of the
State of Delaware
March 31, 1919
Alfred I. Dupont, Chairman • Benjamin F. Shaw • Isaac Elliott • John S. Rossell • Albert Stetser, Secretary

Executive Officer & Consulting Engineer
Frederick W. Carpenter
The people of New Castle County through the Levy Court provided the money to build this bridge

Dedicated May 30, 1922 - Memorial Day
Washington
Memorial Bridge

Length 720 feet, Width 72 fee.
Five reinforced concrete arches:
two arches of 70 feet span,
one arch of 250 feet span,
two arches of 85 feet span.

Engineer
Benjamin·H·Davis
Architect
Vance·W·Torbert
Resident Engineer
H·K·Wilson

Contractor
Walsh Construction Company

Construction was begun
August 21, 1920
1777
1917 - 1918

"When we build let us think that we build forever"
Ruskin

These arches span an historic stream along whose upper course the great Washington and his heroic fellow patriots strove in bygone years to maintain individual liberty and to found a united nation of free men.

Throughout the intervening

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years devoted men have fought and died for home and country.

And once again in years scarce passed in another Great War the citizens of Delaware joined their loyal fellow countrymen and went to aid the forces of civilization in a just cause.

"Come, please! Not like a mourner bowed
For honor lost and dear ones wasted,
But proud, to meet a people proud,
with eyes that tell of triumph tasted"
Lowell

1777
1917 - 1918

"You have in a common cause fought and triumphed together"
Washington

Let us not forget that we are their debtors that their deeds are our heritage and that we share the fruits of their devotion of their labors and their sacrifices and so let us cherish their memories through succeeding generations.

1812 • 1846 • 1861 • 1898

"We believe that the trend of the modern spirit is ever stronger toward peace, not war, toward friendship, not hostility"
Roosevelt

★
1917 - 1918
More than ten thousand young men responded to the call.

In gratitude and in loving remembrance Washington Memorial Bridge is dedicated to the sons of Delaware who joined the forces of their country in the Great

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2. Washington Street Bridge Marker

World War and went forth bravely in the service of the nation and of all mankind.

Champagne-Marne • Aisne-Marne • Ypres-Lys • St. Mihiel • Meuse-Argonne

"May ample justice be done them here, and may the choicest of heaven's favors, both here and hereafter, attend those who under the divine auspices, have secured innumerable blessings for others."
Washington

★
1917 - 1918

"Then they rode back, but not,
Not the six hundred"
Tennyson

"Theirs but to do and die Alfred R. Acker • Frank A. Adams • Thomas D. Amory • Frank E. Amrhine • Thos. J. Anderson • James P. Arthur • Bailey S. Ashby • George V. August, Jr. • Xavier J. Baltrush • Edwin F. Barnum • Woodman R. Beeson • Abe Bellmore • Edgar L. Benge • Herbert W. Best • C.G. Billingsly • Albin Boklund • Clarence C. Bolden • John P. Bolwell • George H. Boyer • Wm. T. Bramble Jr. • Wm. N. Brennan Jr. • Ellsworth Briscoe • Herbert Briscoe • James W. Brown • Oliver L. Brown • Alfred M. Bryan • Ronald J. Buchanan • Rupert M. Burstan • Alvin F. Burton • Theodore Butler • Arthur B. Cadori • James E. Caldwell

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3. Washington Street Bridge Marker

• Walter Campbell • P.T. Carlile IV. • John E. Cassidy • Robert Causey • F.E. Chalfant Jr. • James L. Chambers • John A. Chandler • John Cichocki • Harvey R. Cleaves • Frank M. Coffin • Andrew A. Conlin • Thomas Cooper • Leon H. Cork • Vincent A. Corliss • Samuel J. Coyle • Jacob H. Cranfield • James P. Crowley • D.A. Cunningham • Thomas J. Davis • Sebastian Dazinni • George H. Dean

Samuel W. Demaree • Thos. W. Dempsey • N.J. Derickson Jr. • Preston L. Dewey • James H. Dobson • Jos. C. Dougherty • Bernard J. Dubell • William L. Duke • H.D. Dumpson • Reuben J. Dunn • Wm. McK. Dygert • Walter P. Earley • John Earner • Thomas W. Eaton • Edward T. Edge • Joseph Edwards • Levin J. Ellis • James C. Emory • Joseph J. English • Tony Enis • Wm. E. Farrell • Jenkins Fennell • Alfred Fidance • John L. Fisher • Wm. McK. Fleming • Walter L. Fox • H.B. Frampton • Wm. K. Frampton • Monte J. Fulmer • L.K. Gallagher • Hyman M. Geller • William F. Gies • Frank P. Glenn • Geo. W. Golley Jr. • James W. Gooding • Joseph Gottlieb • Samuel Grabavola

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4. Washington Street Bridge Marker

• Frank H. Gray • Leander Gray • James Grier • Fred H. Griffin • F.C. Groetzinger • Ellwood Groves • Roger W. Gunby • P.T. Hadjimichael • Harvey Hadley • Geo. W. Hammond • Joseph C. Hanby • Jacob Hancock • Jos. A. Harrington • Ernest Harris • David C. Harrison

Robert B. Hartley • Richar C. Hasinger • Eramus Hastings • M.N. Hatfield • Joseph A. Higgins • J.J. Hoffecker Jr. • Ebert L. Holmes • A.F. Hoodock • George T. Hopkins • Harold E. Hopkins • John J. Horty • James P. Houghton • Elisha O. Hudson • James H. Hughes • John P.A. Hughes • Arthur G. Hyland • Gomer K. Isaacs • Ulysses S. Isaacs • Jeremiah Jackson • Stephen L. James • Jacob J. Jockett • Howard W. Johnson • Milford Johnson • William N. Jones • William L. Kaiser • Charles J. Kane • Francis J. Kane • Albert R. Kennedy • Major Kenyon • John Kilpatrick • William Klika • John Koziel • Howard E. Krum • Tony Labruna • James Larkin • Lawrence Layton • W.B. Lenderman • L.K. Lichtenhahn • Walter Lowe • Earl Luff • Ruth MacGregor • John P. Mahoney • Samuel Malishcka • Davis

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5. Washington Street Bridge Marker

E. Manlove • W.N. Mannering • John McArthur • M.J. McKeown • Wm. H. McKinnie • William McVerry • Frank L. Mead • I.B. Megonical • Harry Miller

Harry W. Mitchell • Henry E. Moody • Russell R. Moore • Daniel J. Morgan • John L. Morris • Levin D. Morris • Edw. J. Mulhern • Emerson W. Murray • Wacton Myshinski • Frank Nero • Walter T. Newman • William J. Noonan • John J. O'Connell • James A. O'Donnell • Adam Pacelle • H.J. Palmatary • Chas. H. Parsons • Linwood L. Pearson • Thomas Penington • Chas. H. Philips • Jos. W. Phillips • Raymond Piper • Edward Poyntz • John L. Pugh • Edward Quails • Frank C. Quails • John A. Quill • John F. Radcliffe • Samuel Reading • Ernest Reburn • Harry E. Reed • James T. Reed • Edwin Reeside • Chas. E. Renstrom • H.D. Reynolds • Raymond Reynolds • John P. Richter • Chester C. Riley • Laurence Roberts • Thos. J. Robinson • John H. Roder • Morris M. Rowley • Jesse G. Rudy • Walter M. Sadler • George Savin • Homer D. Sayers • Earl H. Schmierer • Norman D. Scott • Henry Shaw • Wm. P. Shepard • Stacey

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6. Washington Street Bridge Marker

S. Schockley

Norman G. Smith • Walter Smith • William E. Smith • Jacob F. Speer • Allen K. Stelle • John Stewart • A.R. Stritzelberger • Robert Stuart • Edward Swarter • James E. Swift • Ebert T. Talley • Adam Tapacz • Dudley S. Tarr • Alex. Taylor • Lewis A. Taylor • Robert L. Taylor • Roland C. Teague • John Tessein • Virgil Thomas • B.A. Thomasson • Albert R. Thompson • Louis K. Thorp • James S. Timothy • William Tott • Daniel W. Tressler • Richar S. Truitt • Harvey A. Tucker • Ralph Turner • Holton A. Vance • Clarence Vinson Jr. • H.H. Wagamon • Harlan W. Walker • Ray Walker • Albert H. Waller • Francis R. Walsh • Frank J. Walsh • John J. Walsh • Elwood E. Walters • Oliver J. Waples • George E. Waters • Herman Webster • Walter J. West • Wilbert White • Walter J. Wiest • David Williams • James W. Wingate • Lawrence R. Witsil • George Wood • Howard W. Wood • Kemp Wright • Samuel C. Yearsley • Anthony Young • Newton W. Zebley

"The world will little note nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they
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7. Washington Street Bridge Dedication
did here"
Lincoln

Erected 1922 by Washington Street Bridge Commission.

Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Architecture • Bridges & Viaducts • War, World I. A significant historical date for this entry is March 31, 1919.

Location. 39° 45.091′ N, 75° 32.926′ W. Memorial is in Wilmington, Delaware, in New Castle County. It is in Mid-town Brandywine. It is on Washington Street north of West 14th Street. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 1400 Washington St, Wilmington DE 19801, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Greater Philadelphia.

It is also in the American Mid-Atlantic,

on the Delmarva Peninsula,

and on the Eastern Seaboard. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region,

North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Netherland

and also one of the original Thirteen Colonies.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Washington Memorial Bridge Centennial (within shouting distance of this marker); McKinley

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8. Washington Street Bridge Marker

(within shouting distance of this marker); First Presbyterian Church (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); Presbyterian Meeting House (about 400 feet away); Lower Dam and North Short Millrace (about 400 feet away); a different marker also named Looking Back… (about 500 feet away); John McKinly (about 700 feet away); a different marker also named Washington Street Bridge (about 700 feet away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Wilmington.

Another marker is no longer nearby. Looking Back… (was about 400 feet away but has been replaced with another marker now near it).

Washington Street Bridge with its various dedications image. Click for full size.

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9. Washington Street Bridge with its various dedications

Credits. This page was last revised on February 11, 2024. It was originally submitted on February 11, 2024, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia. This page has been viewed 429 times since then and 32 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. submitted on February 11, 2024, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.