WILMINGTON, a town and river-port of the United States of N. America, Delaware, at the junction of the Christiana Creek with the Brandywine, 2 miles above the mouth of the latter in the Delaware, 28 miles S.W. of Philadelphia, and 70 E.N.E. of Baltimore. It stands partly at the foot and partly on the slope of a hill, is regularly laid out with broad straight streets, and is generally well built of brick. The principal public buildings are a town hall, a large hospital, a handsome Roman Catholic college founded in 1847, and numerous churches belonging to different denominations. Wilmington has several boarding-schools, newspaper offices, and banks. But it is as a manufacturing town that it chiefly deserves notice. The whole of its establishments are estimated to produce annually, on an average, goods valued at L.990,000. Among the more important items that make up this sum are iron and iron goods of all sorts, L.277,000; flour and meal, L.244,000; leather of various kinds, L.142,000; and cotton, L.110,000. Ship-building is also carried on to a large extent; and there is a considerable trade and navigation. Pop. (1853) 16,163.