Beaver Valley -- The valley of the Brandywine west of Concord Pike at Thompsons Bridge Road. The hill is one of the steepest in Delaware.
Black Cat -- Du Pont Highway just south of the railroad bridge at the split from Pulaski Highway and north of Llangolen. That was the name of a popular tavern once located there.
Blue Ball -- Concord Pike and Rockland Road. Named for a long-gone tavern. Located on what then was the stagecoach route between Wilmington and West Chester, Pa., the name derives from the practice of placing a glass ball atop a post to signal coach drivers to stop to pick up a passenger. As the result of the state's road building and park development effort to support Astra Zeneca expansion, the name has again come into common use, but it evidently will not be preserved indefinitely because the Division of Parks & Recreation decided to name the park after Alapocas Run, a small stream that flows by the intersection.
Browntown -- The section of south Wilmington east of Maryland Avenue. Originally a neighborhood housing Polish immigrants and first-generation Polish-Americans who found work in the city's leather factories, shipyards and other industries. The place name is still widely used.
Cool Spring -- The Wilmington park bounded bounded by 10th, Van Buren and Adams Streets and Park Place and the reservoir property west of it. The name is also applied to the surrounding neighborhood.
Farnhurst -- The place along Du Pont Parkway south of Wilmington Manor, where the Herman M. Holloday Sir. campus and the interchange with the approach to the Delaware Memorial Bridges are located. That was the original name of the hospital on the campus. Those who are really long-timers also knew the hospital as the Seven Stacks.
Happy Valley -- The Wilmington neighborhood bounded by Van Burean and Adams Streets, Shallcross Avenue and South Park Drive. It now lies literally in the shadow of Interstate 95, which passes overhead, but remains a community with many traditional trappings.,
Henry Clay -- The community along the Brandywine east of Kennett Pike and west of Wilmington. The originally was company housing for foremen and other higher-ranking workers at the Du Pont Co. powder mills.
McKee's Hill -- Concord Pike between Augustine Cut-off and the railroad bridge just north of the intersection of Concord Avenue and Broom Street in Wilmington. McKee apparently was a landowner on the slope when the road came to be in Colonial times.
Monkey Hill -- Van Buren Street between North Park Drive and 18th Street in Wilmington. It is so named because the Brandywine Zoo's monkey exhibit is located halfway up the slope. The hill's cobblestone paving has survived numerous 'improvement' projects, including recent rebuilding of the steep path to include landings and steps.
New Bridge -- The span across the Brandywine just west of Wilmington. This is officially designated as State Bride No. 1, not necessarily because it was the first one but because it was so numbered when the old State Highway Department began numbering bridges in the 1920s. In any event, New Bridge actually is a fairly old bridge. The road east of the bridge to what is now the main entrance of the Du Pont Co. Experimental Station is New Bridge Road. But Delaware Department of Transportation kept referring to it as Rising Sun Lane during planning for the Tyler McConnell Bridge. Rising Sun Lane, Wilmington's westernmost street, lead to the bridge's west side. That name is an oddity in itself considering that the sun usually rises in the east.
Shellpot -- The area south of Shellpot Creek and west of Market Street at the edge of north Wilmington at the base of Penny Hill. Once the location of an amusement park, which burned down in the 1930s, it now is the site of a small shopping center.
Twin Lakes -- Ponds on private property on the west side of Kennett Pike north of Greenville and south of Campbell Road. They have long been a popular ice skating venue.
Union Park Gardens -- The area of west Wilmington south of Lancaster Avenue and west of Union Street. Around the turn of the 20th Century, this was a fairgrounds -- and also the side of the city's first professional baseball park. The recreation area gave way to housing during the city's industrial boom preceding and during the First World War.
Wawaset Park -- The area of west Wilmington bounded by Pennsylvania, Greenhill and Woodlawn Avenues and Seventh Street. This somewhat secluded neighborhood originally was a horse racing track. Today it is populated largely by mid-level executives and their families.