Boundaries and Formation
White Clay Hundred is that portion of New Castle County that lies north of the Christiana River and south and west of White Clay Creek, excepting that it also includes the small area west of the Christiana River immediately west of Newark, and excludes a larger area north and east of the Christiana River generally from the old Pennsylvania Railroad tracks to Cooch’s Bridge. It was formed from Christiana Hundred and New Castle Hundred in 1710 and was named for White Clay Creek that flows along its northern boundary.
Originally, the default boundary of Delaware and Maryland was the vague height of land between the Delaware River and Chesapeake Bay drainage basins and White Clay Hundred extended to that point. With the running of the Mason-Dixon Line in 1767, the western boundary of Delaware was established in its present location and became White Clay Hundred’s western boundary. It was the gap between this line and the existing western boundary, the 12 mile arc drawn around the town of New Castle, which created the long disputed area known as the Wedge.
Read more about this topic: White Clay Hundred
Famous quotes containing the words boundaries and/or formation:
“Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will’s impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“Those who were skillful in Anatomy among the Ancients, concluded from the outward and inward Make of an Human Body, that it was the Work of a Being transcendently Wise and Powerful. As the World grew more enlightened in this Art, their Discoveries gave them fresh Opportunities of admiring the Conduct of Providence in the Formation of an Human Body.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)