Chester County, Pennsylvania
Ashbridge, David, Log House
Atkinson, Clement, Memorial Hospital
Autun
Bailey, John, Farm
Baily Farm
Bank of Chester County
Barclay House
Barnard, William J., Residence
Barns-Brinton House
Bartram's Covered Bridge
Bell, John, Farm
Birchrunville General Store
Birchrunville Historic District
Birmingham Friends Meetinghouse and School
Black Rock Bridge
Boyer, Riter, House
Bradford Friends Meetinghouse
Brandywine Building and Loan Assoc. Rowhouses
Bridge in East Fallowfield Township
Bridge in West Fallowfield Township
Bridge Mill Farm
Brinton's Mill
Brinton, Edward, House
Brinton, George, House
Brinton-King Farmstead
Brower's Bridge
Buckwalter Building
Bull, Thomas, House
Butler House
Byers Station Historic District
Caln Meeting House
Carter-Worth House and Farm
Carver Court
Cedarcroft
Chandler Mill Bridge
Charlestown Village Historic District
Chester County Courthouse
Chester Springs Historic District
Cheyney, Squire, Farm
Church Farm School Historic District
Clinger-Moses Mill Complex
Coates, Moses, Jr., Farm
Coatesville Historic District
Coatesville Veterans Administration Hospital Historic District
Colebrook Manor
Collins Mansion
Como Farm
County Bridge No. 101
County Bridge No. 124
County Bridge No. 148
County Bridge No. 171
Coventry Hall
Coventryville Historic District
Cox, Hewson, House
Cramond
Cressbrook Farm
Davis, Daniel, House and Barn
Deery Family Homestead
DeHaven, Harry, House
Derbydown Homestead
Dilworthtown Historic District
Doe Run Village Historic District
Dougherty, Edward, House
Dougherty, Philip, House
Dougherty, Philip, Tavern
Downing, Hunt, House
Downing, Hunt, House (Boundary Decrease)
Downingtown Log House
Drovers Inn
East Bradford Boarding School for Boys
East Lancaster Avenue Historic District
East, Nicholas, House
Edgewood
Elverson Historic District
Embreeville Historic District
Ercildoun Historic District
Esherick, Wharton, Studio
Everhart, William, Buildings
Everhart, William, House
Exton Hotel
Fagley House
Fairville Historic District
Farmers and Mechanics Trust Company Building
Federal Barn
Ferguson, William, Farm
Ferron, John, House
First Presbyterian Church of West Chester
Fox Chase Inn
French Creek Farm
Fricks Locks Historic District
Garrett Farmstead
Gay Street School
General Washington Inn
Gibson's Covered Bridge
Gladden, Joseph, House
Glen Hope Covered Bridge
Glen Rose Historic District
Glenmoore Historic District
Goodwin Acres
Goshenville Historic District
Great Valley Mill
Green Valley Historic District
Greenwood Farm
Greenwood School
Gregg, Joseph, House
Grove Historic District
Hall's Bridge
Hamorton Historic District
Hance House and Barn
Hanna, John, Farm
Hannum, Col. John, House
Hare's Hill Road Bridge
Harlan House
Harlan Log House
Hartman, George, House
Harvard, David, House
Harvey, Peter, House and Barn
Harvey, William, House
Hatfield-Hibernia Historic District
Hayes Homestead
Hayes Mill House
Hayes, Jacob, House
Hibernia House
High Bridge
Hockley Mill Farm
Hoffman, George, House
Hoopes, Cyrus, House and Barn
Hopewell Farm
Hopewell Historic District
House at Springdell
House at Upper Laurel Iron Works
Hunt, Roger, Mill
Huston, Abram, House and Carriage House
Indian Deep Farm
Isabella Furnace
Ivy Cottage
Jacobs, Benjamin, House
Kennedy Bridge
Kennedy, Francis W., House
Kennett Square Historic District
Ker-Feal
Kimberton Historic District (Boundary Increase)
Kimberton Village Historic District
Kinbawn
Kirkland Station
Knauer, John, House and Mill
Lafayette's Quarters
Lahr Farm
Lapp Log House
Larkin Covered Bridge
Lenape Bridge
Lewis, Evan, House
Lightfoot Mill
Lionville Historic District
Lochiel Farm
Longwood Gardens District
Lukens Historic District
Lukens Main Office Building
Lunn's Tavern
Marlborough Village Historic District
Marshall's Bridge
Marshall, Humphry, House
Marshall, Humphry, House
Marshallton Historic District
Marshallton Inn
Martin-Little House
Meredith, Daniel, House
Meredith, Simon, House
Meredith, Stephen, House
Michener, Nathan, House
Middle Pickering Rural Historic District
Moore Hall
Mortonville Hotel
Mount Zion A.M.E. Church
Mountain Meadow Farm
Nantmeal Village Historic District
National Bank of Coatesville Building
New Century Clubhouse
Newlin Miller's House
Northbrook Historic District
Oakdale
Oaklands
Okehocking Historic District
Old Kennett Meetinghouse
Orthodox Meetinghouse
Ostheimer, Martha and Maurice, Estate
Oxford Historic District
Oxford Hotel
Paoli Battlefield Site and Parade Grounds
Paradise Valley Historic District
Parker's Ford
Parkersville Friends Meetinghouse
Parkesburg National Bank
Parkesburg School
Passmore, Mansel, House
Pawling, Isaac, House
Pennock, Martha, House
Pennsbury Inn
Pennypacker, Benjamin, House
Pennypacker, Matthias, Farm
Peters, William, House
Phillips, Joseph and Esther, Plantation
Phoenixville Historic District
Phoenixville Historic District (Boundary Decrease)
Pickwick
Pierce, Lukens, House
Pleasant Hill Plantation
Pottstown Landing Historic District
Powell Farm
Powell, John, House
Price, Joseph, House
Primitive Hall
Prizer's Mill Complex
Pusey, Joshua, House
Rapps Bridge
Reading Furnace Historic District
Rice-Pennebecker Farm
River Bend Farm
Rogers, Philip, House
Rooke, Robert, House
Ross, Moses, House
Roughwood
Rudolph and Arthur Covered Bridge
Rush, Benjamin, House
Sandy Hill Tavern
Schuylkill Navigation Canal, Oakes Reach Section
Scott, David, House
Scott, Thomas, House
Sharples Homestead
Sharples Separator Works
Sharpless Homestead
Ship Inn
Sleepy Hollow Hall
Solitude Farm
South Brook Farm
Speakman No. 1
Speakman No. 2, Mary Ann Pyle Bridge
Spring Mill Complex
Springdale Farm
Springton Manor Farm
Spruce Grove School
St. Mary's Episcopal Church
St. Milachi Church
St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church
St. Paul's Church
St. Peter's Church in the Great Valley
St. Peters Village Historic District
Steen, Robert, House
Stephens, Linton, Covered Bridge
Stirling, Maj. Gen. Lord, Quarters
Stonorov, Oskar G., House
Strafford Railroad Station
Strickland-Roberts Homestead
Strode's Mill
Strode's Mill Historic District
Sugartown Historic District
Taylor House
Taylor-Cope Historic District
Temple-Webster-Stoner House
Terracina
Thomas Marble Quarry Houses
Thomas Mill and Miller's House
Thomas Mill and Miller's House
Thomas, Charles, House
Thompson Farm
Townsend House
Trimbleville Historic District
Twin Bridges Rural Historic District
Unionville Village Historic District
Uwchlan Meetinghouse
Valley Forge National Historical Park
Vaughan, Rev. Joshua, House
Vincent Forge Mansion
Von Steuben, Gen. Frederick, Headquarters
Walker, Joseph, House
Walton, Asa, House
Warner Theater
Warrenpoint
Warwick Furnace/Farms
Warwick Mills
Waterloo Mills Historic District
Waynesborough
Wee Grimmet
Welkinweir
Wentz, John, House
West Chester Boarding School for Boys
West Chester Downtown Historic District
West Chester Historic District (Boundary Increase)
West Chester State College Quadrangle Historic District
West Vincent Highlands Historic District
West Whiteland Inn
Wetherby-Hampton-Snyder-Wilson-Erdman Log House
Wheelen House
White Horse Farm
White Horse Historic District
White Horse Tavern
White Horse Tavern
White, Hannah, Log House
Whitford Garne
Whitford Hall
Whitford Station House
Wickersham, Gideon, Farmstead
Wiley-Cloud House
Wilkinson House
Williams Deluxe Cabins
Williams, Ellis, House
Williams, John, Farm
Wilson, Robert, House
Winings, Jacob, House and Clover Mill
Wisner, Jacob, House
Woodland Station
Woodledge
Worker's House at Lower Laurel Iron Works
Worth-Jefferis Rural Historic District
Young, Joseph, House
Young, Robert, House
Zook House
Zook House
Zook House (Boundary Increase)
Zook, Jacob, House
10 South 3rd Street
4 South 3rd Street
8 South 3rd Street
97th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers Memorial
American Legion Post 482 War Memorial
Amos House
An Engineer's Garden
Ann Preston, M.D.
Anthony Wayne
Anthony Wayne's Headquarters, 1777-78
Atglen Borough Hall
Bank of Chester County
Barnard Street Public School - Denney Tag Company
Barns-Brinton House
Battle of Brandywine
Battlefield Site Map
Bayard Rustin
Birthplace of Isaac Sharpless
Brandywine Battlefield A Commonwealth Treasure
Brandywine Iron Works - Early 1800s
Brandywine Mansion
Cabin of Indian Hannah
Camp Elder Civil War Paroled P.O.W. Camp
Camp Life
Captain Benjamin Bartholomew
Charles Lukens Huston House
Charles Lukens Huston House Site
Chester County
Chester County Courthouse
Chester County World War II Veterans Memorial
Chester Springs
Chester Springs
Colonel Thomas Bull
Columbus Penn Evans
David Townsend House
Devon Horse Show
Disabled Veterans of Chester County Pennsylvania Memorial
Down by the WaterÂ’s Edge
Downingtown Log House
Dr. Charlotte Moore Sitterly
DuffyÂ’s Cut Mass Grave
Edward Hunter Homestead
Eusebius Barnard
Everhart Grove
First Defense Line
Frederick Douglass
G. Raymond Rettew
Garden of Honor
Gen. Anthony Wayne
General Lafayette
General WayneÂ’s Encampment
Generals and Cattle Raids
Gen's Lafayette and Pulaski
George WashingtonÂ’s Coffee Bean Tree
Gilbert Cope
Good News Productions
Goshen Baptist Church
Goshenville Blacksmith and Wheelwright Shops
Graceanna Lewis
Graystone - Abram Francis Huston House
Great Minquas Path
Here Rests Indian Hannah
Historic American Structure
Historic Sugartown
Historic Waynesborough
Historic West Chester, Pennsylvania Building
Honor Court to Brigadier General Lachlan McIntosh
Hopewell Bell Tower
Hopewell Historic District
Horace Pippin
Horse-Shoe Trail
Hosanna Meeting House
Ida Ella Ruth Jones
In Memory of Those Who Fell
In Memory of Unknown Soldiers
Indian Hannah Birthplace
Indian Rock
Isaac & Dinah Mendenhall
Isaac Dutton Barnard
Italian Water Garden
Jefferis Ford
John G. Parke
John H. Ware 3rd, Commerce Center
Joseph T. Rothrock
Kennett Square
KnoxÂ’s Quarters
Lenni-Lenape Indian Burial Ground
Lightfoot Mill
Lincoln University
Lukens Executive Office Building
Lynching of Zachariah Walker
Malvern Area World War I Memorial
Malvern Memorial Parade
Malvern World War II Memorial
Marquis De LaFayette
Marshall Square Park
Massacre Farm / 19th Century House
Milltown/Hickman Plank House
Nathan Simms
OfficerÂ’s Quarters
Okehocking Land Grant
Old Glory
Old Main Arch Memorial
On This Native Stone
Osborne's Hill
Oxford Veterans Memorial
Paoli
Paoli Massacre Monument
Paoli Veterans Monument
Parker Kidnapping & Rescue
Peirce's Park
Peirce's Woods
Pennhurst State School & Hospital
Pennsylvania Columns
Pennsylvania Division
Peter Bezellon
Philadelphia & Lancaster Turnpike Road
Phoenix Iron & Steel Company
Phoenix Iron Company
Phoenixville Vietnam War Memorial
Phoenixville War Memorial
Pierre S. du Pont, Fountain Visionary
PoorÂ’s Brigade
Quarters of Major General William Alexander
Rear of the Camp
Samuel Barber
Scouter's Grove
Simon Barnard Row
Site of First School House in West Chester
Site of Paoli Massacre
Site of the First Schoolhouse
Site of the Paoli Massacre
Site of the Stone Chimney Picket
South Coventry Township WW II Memorial
Springton Manor
Star of the West, Tent No. Six
State Fencibles of Philadelphia Campsite
Sunset Park
Symbols of Steel Sculpture Garden
Terracina
The Baptist Church in the Great Valley
The Battle of the Clouds
The Carl R. Fretz Memorial to Community Service
The Dime Savings Bank
The First National Bank of West Chester
The Friends School at Birmingham Meeting House
The Great Trail
The Griffen Cannon and Memorial
The Home and Arboretum of Humphry Marshall
The Land on Which the Battle of Paoli was Fought
The Lukens Mill - Early 1900s
The Lukens Mill - Late 1800s
The Manor of Steyning
The Modern Mill
The Paoli Battlefield
The Paoli Memorial Association
The Peirce - du Pont House
This Wall
Thomas B. Read
Thomas Buchanan Read
Thomas McKean
Thomas S. Butler House
To Honor the Maker of First American Flag
To Marylanders Who Served Here
Trimbleville Historic District
Trimble's Ford
TurkÂ’s Head Tavern
Upper Forge Site
Valley Forge General Hospital
Valley Forge Hut
Village of Valley Forge
Village of Valley Forge
Virginia
We Hold in Honor and Sacred Memory
Welkinweir
West Chester
West Chester Academy
Wharton Esherick
Whittier C. Atkinson
William Darlington
William Darlington M.D.
Woman's Rights Convention of 1852
"We buryÂ’d our Dead next day in the field of Battle, All killÂ’d by the sword and Bayonet."
"Â…The most dreadful scene I have ever beheld."
“A Dreadful scene of havock”
“Remember Paoli!”
“Remember Paoli!”
In 1681, William Penn was granted a charter to establish a colony that would later become Pennsylvania. Penn actively encouraged settlement in the area, and Chester County quickly grew as English Quakers and other European immigrants flocked to the region. Agriculture played a prominent role in the county's early development, with farmers cultivating wheat, barley, and corn.
The American Revolutionary War had a significant impact on Chester County, as the area witnessed several crucial battles. The battle of Brandywine, fought in 1777, saw General George Washington's troops clash with British forces. Although the Americans lost the battle, it marked a turning point in the war and led to their eventual victory.
In the 19th century, Chester County experienced significant industrial growth. The rise of the railroad brought increased commerce, as factories and mills sprouted up throughout the county. The county's population grew, and towns such as West Chester, Phoenixville, and Coatesville thrived. Today, Chester County is known for its historical landmarks, charming small towns, and beautiful countryside. It continues to attract visitors and residents alike with its unique blend of history, natural beauty, and modern amenities.
Brief timeline of the history of Chester County, Pennsylvania:
- 1682 - Chester County is established by William Penn as one of the original counties of Pennsylvania.
- 1683 - The first county courthouse is built in Chester County in the town of Chester.
- 1713 - The Great Valley Presbyterian Church, one of the oldest Presbyterian churches in the United States, is founded in Chester County.
- 1777 - During the American Revolutionary War, the Battle of Brandywine takes place in Chester County, resulting in a British victory.
- 1786 - The village of West Chester is officially incorporated as a borough in Chester County.
- 1791 - The construction of the first bridge over the Schuylkill River, known as the Parker Ford Bridge, is completed in Chester County.
- 1863 - During the American Civil War, Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry passes through Chester County during the Gettysburg Campaign.
- 1950 - The population of Chester County surpasses 100,000, marking a significant increase from its early settlement days.
- 1963 - Valley Forge National Historical Park is established in Chester County, preserving the site of the Continental Army's winter encampment during the Revolutionary War.
- 2000 - Chester County becomes one of the fastest-growing counties in Pennsylvania, with a population exceeding 400,000.
- 2018 - Chester County continues to thrive and develop as a diverse and vibrant community in southeastern Pennsylvania.
This timeline provides a glimpse into the major events and milestones that have shaped the history of Chester County, Pennsylvania.