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The county building was dedicated to honor Congressman Paul Dague in 1971. [1] In 1980, the Chester County Library moved to its current location in Exton (next to the Exton Square Mall). In 1982, the library in Exton received a National Association of Counties Award for its Library Literacy Program, the first in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania ...
The library was reincorporated in 1876 as the Chester Free Library. [5] A building on Ninth Street was constructed in 1877 to use for the library and a community center. A wealthy philanthropist, J. Lewis Crozer, bequeathed $250,000 to the library after his death in 1897. [6] The library was renamed the J. Lewis Crozer Library in 1925 in ...
The Easttown Public Library was founded in 1905 and is a member of the Chester County Library System which consists of the 18 public libraries in the county. The Upper Main Line YMCA was founded in 1962 and sits on the former 124-acre summer estate owned by investment banker J. Gardner Cassatt, the brother of famed painter Mary Cassatt and ...
West Chester Univ. campus, between Library and Main Hall, facing High St. Roadside African American, Civil Rights, Education, Government & Politics 19th Century, Military, Publishing G. Raymond Rettew: September 17, 2002
Chester County History Center (CCHC), formerly the Chester County Historical Society, [3] is a nonprofit historical society, founded in 1893, dedicated to collecting, preserving, and exhibiting the history of Chester County, Pennsylvania, and the surrounding area. The History Center is located at 225 North High Street in downtown West Chester.
For the purposes of this list, the county is split into three regions: Eastern, Northern, and Southern. Eastern Chester County is defined as being the municipalities south and east of a line extending from Phoenixville to Exton to West Chester; Northern Chester County is defined as being the municipalities north of the Philadelphia Main Line and west of a line extending from Phoenixville to ...
Eastern Chester County includes 113 properties and districts, including 4 National Historic Landmarks; the county's remaining properties and districts are listed elsewhere. One district, the Middle Pickering Rural Historic District, is split between Northern and Eastern Chester County, and is thus included on both lists.
Phoenixville is a borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States.It is located 28 miles (45 km) northwest of Philadelphia at the junction of French Creek and the Schuylkill River.