Mechanicsville, Delaware

Mechanicsville in The Wedge. This 1898 map places Mechanicsville in Pennsylvania.

Mechanicsville is a crossroads community located in "The Wedge", a geometric oddity arising out of ambiguity in the 18th Century border dispute settlement between the Penns and Calverts in the British North American Colonies. Until 1921, Mechanicsville was claimed by both Pennsylvania and Delaware. Then the resolution allocated Mechanicsville and The Wedge to Delaware. Mechanicsville is located at 39°43′01″N 075°47′01″W / 39.71694°N 75.78361°W / 39.71694; -75.78361Coordinates: 39°43′01″N 075°47′01″W / 39.71694°N 75.78361°W / 39.71694; -75.78361.^[1]

References

↑ "Mechanicsville". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 18 March 2012.

Municipalities and communities of New Castle County, Delaware, United States

County seat: Wilmington

Cities	Delaware City New Castle Newark Wilmington

Towns	Bellefonte Clayton‡ Elsmere Middletown Newport Odessa Smyrna‡ Townsend

Villages	Arden Ardencroft Ardentown

CDPs	Bear Brookside Claymont Edgemoor Glasgow Greenville Hockessin North Star Pike Creek Pike Creek Valley Wilmington Manor

Unincorporated communities	Ashland Augustine Beach Basin Corner Belvidere Biddles Corner Blackbird Boyds Corner Christiana Collins Beach Collins Park Corner Ketch Faulkland Farnhurst Flemings Landing Granogue Greenbank Hares Corner Henry Clay Holloway Terrace Kirkwood Landenberg Junction Marshallton Mathews Corners McClellandville Mechanicsville Milford Crossroads Mill Creek Minquadale Mockingbird Hills Montchanin Mount Cuba Mount Pleasant Ogletown Pleasantville Port Penn Prices Corner Red Lion Rockland St. Georges Silverbrook Silview Southwood Stanton State Road Summit Bridge Talleyville Taylors Bridge Tybouts Corner Williamsburg Winterthur Wooddale Wrangle Hill Yorklyn

Hundreds	Appoquinimink Blackbird Brandywine Christiana Mill Creek New Castle Pencader Red Lion St. George's White Clay Creek Wilmington

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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