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

Washington Street Bridge

World War I Memorial

Photographed By Devry Becker Jones (CC0), February 9, 2024

1. Washington Street Bridge Marker

Inscription.

Washington Street Bridge. World War I Memorial. 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 and 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 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 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 . 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 . 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 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 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 did here" Lincoln

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

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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 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

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

Photographed By Devry Becker Jones (CC0), February 9, 2024

2. Washington Street Bridge Marker

★
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 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.

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3. Washington Street Bridge Marker

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 • 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

Photographed By Devry Becker Jones (CC0), February 9, 2024

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 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

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5. Washington Street Bridge Marker

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 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

Photographed By Devry Becker Jones (CC0), February 9, 2024

6. Washington Street Bridge Marker

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

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

Washington Street Bridge Dedication image. Click for full size.

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7. Washington Street Bridge Dedication

marker); McKinley (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); 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.

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8. Washington Street Bridge Marker

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

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9. Washington Street Bridge with its various dedications

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