Chester County Links
120 West Main Street, Atglen, PA, USA, 19310
The land upon which Atglen now stands was once a wilderness. Cutting through it were paths made by Indians who traveled from Paxtang (present day Harrisburg) to present day Newcastle, Delaware to trade with the Swedes and later, the English. The great Min ...
110 Pomeroy Avenue, Avondale, PA, USA, 19311
Avondale is located in the Chester County Charter Index, Book 4, Page 82; Avondale Borough, Decree, 1894, but is this our only date of beginning? A great part of our early village was built and had prospered by this time. We must look again. Before incorp ...
1040 West Street Road, West Chester, PA, USA, 19382
Link to Birmingham Township, Chester County, PA from D.L. Howell and Associates, Inc.
253 Municipal Drive, Thorndale, PA, USA, 19372
Nearly 75 years before the Declaration of Independence was conceived, settlers from Calne, England were declaring their own independence in the heart of what is today Chester County, Pennsylvania. Their settlement was "namesaked" Caln, one of the original ...
4030 Whitehorse Road, Devault, PA, USA, 19432
At age 38 in 1682, William Penn arrived in the New World with high ideals and well thought-out ideas on what he planned to do with the 45,000 square miles granted to him by Charles II (in lieu of a debt owed his deceased father). In the countryside he set ...
2 N. High Street, West Chester, PA, USA, 19380
dsf.chesco.org/chesco/site/default.asp
Chester County Government is headquartered in West Chester, Pennsylvania (approximately thirty miles west of Philadelphia) and is administered by a three-person Board of Commissioners, who are elected for four-year terms. The Board manages a large and div ...
1 City Hall Place, Coatesville, PA, USA, 19320
Coatesville's location along the Brandywine River in the midst of the Chester Valley stimulated its growth and prosperity. The first settlement was an Indian village which had grown as a trading center and as a marker for the fur trapping industry. Record ...
4 West Lancaster Avenue, Downingtown, PA, USA, 19335
Downingtown’s origins are of a small village located midway between Philadelphia and Lancaster. The village was first known as Milltown since it was the location of the last mills on the edge of the unsettled western frontier. Thomas Moore erected ‘a wa ...
666 Copeland School Road, West Chester, PA, USA, 19380
The land consisting of East Bradford Township was part of the original land grant from King Charles II to William Penn in 1681. Bradford Township was established in 1705 and was named for Bradford, England. East Bradford Township was established in 1731, ...
1214 Horseshoe Pike, Downingtown, PA, USA, 19335
n October of 1990, the East Brandywine Historical Commission decided to commemorate the township's sesquicentenary with the publication of a book on the township's history, "A History of East Brandywine Township". The township Supervisors approved the req ...
110 Bell Tavern Road, Downingtown, PA, USA, 19335
Link to East Caln Township, Chester County, PA from D.L. Howell and Associates, Inc.
855 Ellis Woods Road, Pottstown, PA, USA, 19465
From the East Coventry Township Comprehensive Plan, Adopted May 2003 At the beginning of the 18th century, the region was vaguely described in old records as “the Highest District from Skoolkill to Brandiwine,” and was known as the “Skoolkill Distr ...
2264 Strasburg Road, East Fallowfield, PA, USA, 19320
Pennsylvania was established as a colony in 1681 when the territory was granted to William Penn by King Charles II, of England. Penn, a Quaker with a strong sense of justice, then purchased the land from the native indians. Chester County was founded in 1 ...
1580 Paoli Pike, West Chester, PA, USA, 19380
Much of the charm of East Goshen Township comes from its historical heritage. The history and development patterns of the Township have defined, in part, current land use patterns, road systems, economics, points of interest and place names. Historic pr ...
721 Unionville Road, Kennett Square, PA, USA, 19348
East Marlborough Township was established by the Pennsylvania State Legislature in 1729. East and West Marlborough Townships were carved out of the larger Marlborough Township, which was considered too unwieldy. Pennsylvania rural Townships were originall ...
158 Election Road, Oxford, PA, USA, 19363
While it is true that East and West Nottingham Townships trace their origins back to the "Nottingham Lotts" of late 1701, these "Lotts" were never recognized as such as a legal entity. The earliest extant tax record for Chester County is that of 1715 and ...
1158 Rapps Dam Road, Phoenixville, PA, USA, 19460
Pike's Land was the first name given to a grant of 10,000 acres by William Penn to Joseph Pike from Cork, Ireland, in 1705. It was eventually sold by Pike's ancestors and in 1838 was split in two parts, East Pikeland and West Pikeland. Mr. E. Kimber es ...
262 Ridge Road, Spring City, PA, USA, 19475
There is archaeological evidence that East Vincent Township was visited by Native Americans thousands of years before Europeans arrived. It is believed that the Native Americans roamed the area, stopping to fish along the Schuylkill River, hunt game, and ...
209 Conestoga Road, Frazer, PA, USA, 19355
www.eastwhiteland.org/default.aspx
The first European settlers, who were Welsh, arrived in Whiteland Township about 1621. Founded in 1704, Whiteland Township was made up of what is today known as East and West Whiteland townships. The name Whiteland originates from Whiteland Gardens, Flint ...
566 Beaumont Road, Devon, PA, USA, 19333
In 1682, the counties of Chester, Philadelphia and Bucks were delineated within William Penn’s Providence of Pennsylvania. An 8.2 square mile area, a north/south diamond of rolling hills in the extreme eastern portion of Chester County became Easttown Tow ...
952 Chesterville Road, Lewisville, PA, USA, 19351
Elk Township was formed in 1857 from 10.4 square miles that were formerly part of East Nottingham. Besides being the smallest township georgraphically in the area, it also is the least populated. As part of the historical "Nottingham Lots," its settlement ...
101 South Chestnut Street, Elverson, PA, USA, 19520
Originally part of West Nantmeal Township, early settlement in the area of present-day Elverson responded to its situation along an established trade route from Lancaster to the French Creek iron furnaces at a location where travelers had access to three ...
20 Municipal Lane, Kemblesville, PA, USA, 19347
Link to Franklin Township, Chester County, PA from D.L. Howell and Associates, Inc.
71 Pequea Avenue, Honey Brook, PA, USA, 19344
In 1815, the village of Waynesburg was formed after a schoolmaster by the name of Stinson purchased a lot or common byway of speculation. He had the lot surveyed into town lots and made a lottery. Those holding lots along Horseshoe Pike took possession an ...
495 Supplee Road, Honey Brook, PA, USA, 19344
In 1815, the village of Waynesburg was formed after a schoolmaster by the name of Stinson purchased a lot or common byway of speculation. He had the lot surveyed into town lots and made a lottery. Those holding lots along Horseshoe Pike took possessio ...
120 Marshall Street, Kennett Square, PA, USA, 19348
Before the European settlers came to this region it was populated by the Lenni-Lenape Indians. The name Kennett originates with Francis Smith who came to this region in 1686. He was a native of Devizes, in Wiltshire, England, in which there is a village c ...
801 Burrows Run Road, Chadds Ford, PA, USA, 19317
The present land area that comprises Kennett Township was originally part of a 30,000 acre tract conveyed by William Penn to his children, William Jr. and Letitia. The tract known as Stenning Manor, surveyed by Henry Hollingsworth in 1701, included the ...
81 Good Hope Road, Landenberg, PA, USA, 19350
www.londonbritaintownship-pa.gov
On March 14, 1681 William Penn received a charter from the King of England for a grant of land to establish a colony in the New World. This colony was named Pennsylvania, or Penn's Woods. The Township of London Britain was organized in 1725 from a tract o ...
372 Rose Hill Road, Suite 100, West Grove, PA, USA, 19390
London Grove Township is located in southern Chester County in Pennsylvania’s rolling Piedmont Region. The Township traditionally has been an agricultural community. And while agriculture is still a major part of the Township, recently London Grove has be ...
