Green Meadow, Delaware

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Green Meadow, Delaware
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Green Meadow
Coordinates: 39°47′25″N75°31′04″W / 39.79028°N 75.51778°W / 39.79028; -75.51778
Country United States
State Delaware
County New Castle
Elevation
256 ft (78 m)
Time zone UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
  Summer (DST) UTC-4 (EDT)
Area code 302
GNIS feature ID217144 [1]

Green Meadow, originally Greenmeadow, and also called Green Meadows, is an suburban community in New Castle County, Delaware, United States. [1] [2]

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Geography

Green Meadow is north of Shellpot Creek, 3.8 miles northeast of Wilmington [2] in the Brandywine Hundred. It is located south of Wilson Road and east of Shipley Road and borders Gardens of Penny Lane, Lynnfield, and Shipley Heights.

History

The community was built by Franklin Builders, an early developer of suburbs in New Castle County with a penchant for using the word "green" in naming the developments, such as Green Meadow and Green Acres. [3] It came on the market in 1954, and consisted of 47 "ranch-type houses". Within the first day of being open to public inspection, 16 homes were sold. [4]

The homes were built with air conditioning. One of the original residents was interviewed in 1994, "That was something new then. It was the Fourth of July and, I remember, very, very hot. This was the only sample [house] we saw that day that was air-conditioned, and they offered it in the price range we wanted," she said. "There were only a couple of houses built not a tree in sight and we had to go to the post office to get our mail. But we had air conditioning." [5]

Originally the main thoroughfare for the neighborhood was narrower than standard, which led to parking controversy. [6] Later in the year the roads were expanded, and around 30 more houses were built in the community, bringing the total to near 80. Home mail delivery began in 1958. [7]

In 1958, Chapman Construction added additional houses to the development, called "Meadowbrook." [8] The area of new houses was called "Greenmeadow II." [8]

In August 1964, The Morning News mistakenly called Green Meadow the home of Joe Biden, the 46th president of the United States. [9]

In July 1989, Shellpot Creek overflowed and surged up to the nearest homes in Green Meadow. [5] "It came right up to here," a resident said. "We were lucky it wasn't worse, but I can tell you it made us reform. We have flood insurance now. Don't let the way it looks now fool you. Any time we get rain, the water rushes right down here. It's not unusual for the creek to come 10 feet over its bank." [5]

In 1991, the Gardens of Penny Lane, a new community of larger and more modern homes, was connected to Green Meadow. [10]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Green Meadow". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. 1 2 L. W. Heck, A. J. Wraight, D. J. Orth, J. R. Carter, L. G. Van Winkle, and Janet Hazen (1966). Delaware Place Names (PDF). Geological Survey Bulletin 1245 (Report). Government Printing Office (U.S.A.).{{cite report}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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