Viewfinder: Just Around the Riverbend

Brandywine Creek fast facts:

• Two branches form the Brandywine Creek.  They are both cleaverly named the East Branch and the West Branch.
• The two branches of the creek both have headwaters near Honey Brook in Northwest Chester County.  The starting points are just two miles apart.
• The creek flows into the Cristiana River in Delaware
• The place where the Brandywine joins with the Cristiana was first settled by Swedish settlers in 1638.  They named the location, now part of Wilmington, Delaware, New Sweden.