What is Wilmington, DE known for?

Dravo piers, where ships were built for D-Day (it's over by the stadium. You walk across is to go to Timothy's). Fruit imports of Pineapples and bananas, from the Port, which go by truck as far as Canada. Wilmington was once the largest source of mica, mostly for resistors. read more

Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays, Wachovia, Capital One 360, HSBC, Citizens Bank, Wilmington Trust, MBNA, and other major credit card issuers are headquartered in Wilmington. The home of the E.I. du Pont de Nemours Experimental Station, the foremost manufacturer of gunpowder in early America and one of the first industrial research facilities in the world (est. 1903). read more

Because Delaware is the official state of incorporation for so many American companies, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, located in Wilmington, is one of the busiest of the 94 federal bankruptcy courts located around the United States. read more