Christiana is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in New Castle County,

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, United States, located on the

Christina River The Christina River is a tributary of the Delaware River, approximately 35 miles (56 km) long, in northern Delaware. It also flows through small areas of southeastern Pennsylvania and northeastern Maryland. Near its mouth, the river ...

, 12 miles southwest of Wilmington. It is home to the

Christiana Hospital Christiana Hospital is a 1,039-bed nationally ranked, non-profit, Tertiary care, tertiary, research and Teaching hospital, academic medical center located in Stanton, Delaware, Stanton, Newark, Delaware, Newark, Delaware, servicing the entire Del ...

and the Christiana Mall and is the location of the northern terminus of

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at an interchange with

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. Despite sharing a name with Christiana Hundred, the community of Christiana is located in White Clay Creek Hundred. Christiana Mall food court entrance

History

It is named after the

, which is in turn named after

Christina, Queen of Sweden Christina (; 18 December O.S. 8 December">Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Old Style and New Style dates">O.S. 8 December1626 – 19 April 1689), a member of the House of Vasa, was Monarchy of Sweden, Queen of Sweden from ...

who oversaw the founding of

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in 1638. The Christiana Historic District, Charles Allen House, John Lewden House, Old Fort Church, Public School No. 111-C, and James Stewart Jr. House and George Hillis Sr. House are listed on the

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. Christiana's population was 400 in 1890, 381 in 1900, 411 in 1925, and 500 in 1960.

Notable people

* Rebecca Lee (Davis) Crumpler (1831–1895), first African-American woman in the United States to become a medical doctor * Annie Ryder Gracey (1836–1908), writer, missionary * Joe Dombrowski (b. 1991), professional road racing cyclist * Christiana Barkley (b. 1989), named by her father

Charles Barkley Charles Wade Barkley (born February 20, 1963) is an American former professional basketball player who is a television analyst on NBA on TNT, TNT and CBS Sports. Nicknamed "Sir Charles", "the Bread Truck", and "the Round Mound of Rebound", ...

after the Christiana Mall

References

External links

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Christiana Historical Society
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