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Wilmington, Delaware

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Location

The Resume

    (March 1638- )
    Founded as Fort Christina
    Renamed by William Penn for Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington
    Largest city in Delaware
    Population (2010 Census): 70,851
    Part of the greater Philadelphia metropolitan area

Why Wilmington, Delaware might be annoying:

    It was founded by the Swedes, then taken over by the Dutch (1655) and English (1664).
    After the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., the mayor asked the governor to send in the National Guard to maintain order. A week later, the mayor asked that the troops be withdrawn, but the governor kept them in the city until January, 1969.
    Thanks to Delaware's corporation-friendly laws, it is the official headquarters for tons of companies that do little business in the state itself.
    It has one of the nation's worst per capita rates of HIV infection, in part due to state legislators blocking needle-exchange programs for several years.
    City officials refused to let 'Fight Club' be filmed there.

Why Wilmington, Delaware might not be annoying:

    It is the site of the oldest black church in America, the Union Church of Africans founded by former slave Peter Spencer (1813).
    Thanks to the DuPont company, it was a major center of America's chemical industry.
    It holds several popular ethnic festivals each spring and summer, including ones for the city's Italian, Greek, Polish and African-American communities.
    It holds an annual tribute to Bob Marley, who lived in the city working as a DuPont lab assistant and an assembly line worker at a Chrysler plant.
    It served as a stand-in for the town of Arcadia in the series Joan of Arcadia.

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 16 Votes: 56.25% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 12 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 16 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 9 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 14 Votes: 57.14% Annoying