Coatesville, Pennsylvania This article is about the Pennsylvania city.
Coatesville.
City of Coatesville Coatesville is positioned in Pennsylvania Coatesville - Coatesville Coatesville is a town/city in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Coatesville is approximately 39 miles west of Philadelphia.
Coatesville advanced in the early 20th century with the expansion of the Lukens Steel Company and other industry.
The first known settlement in the region which would be known as Coatesville was a historic Lenape village assembled along the West Branch of the Brandywine River.
The Brandywine River has featured prominently in the history of Coatesville.
Moses Coates, a prosperous farmer and the namesake of Coatesville, bought the cabin from Fleming's son in 1787.
With the economy rising in the years after the United States attained independence, Moses Coates' son-in-law, Jesse Kersey, came up with a plan to precarious the region by selling frontage on the recently instead of Lancaster Turnpike which crossed through their land.
A tollgate was positioned inside the present-day Coatesville town/city limits. Because Coatesville was positioned roughly halfway between Philadelphia and Lancaster on the turnpike, it became a prominent stopping place.
Before Coatesville became a city, the only one in Chester County, it was called Bridge-Town, after the two bridges crossing the Brandywine River.
A village titled "Midway", titled after its station owned by the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad midway between Philadelphia and Lancaster, was formed in 1834 on the bank of the Brandywine.
The village of Midway and the village of Bridge-Town consolidated in 1867 to turn into the borough of Coatesville. Coatesville people voted to turn into a town/city in 1915.
Coatesville exploited the natural energy of the Brandywine River.
As Lukens Steel interval so did Coatesville, eventually becoming known as the "Pittsburgh of the East." By the beginning of the 20th century the populace had grown to 6,000, attracting immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe to its industrialized jobs, as well as both black and white migrants from the non-urban South.
Tensions rose in the town/city as the populace rapidly became more diverse .
In 1911, steelworker Zachariah Walker was lynched in Coatesville; he had left his wife and kids in Virginia while seeking better work.
He was dragged from the hospital and burned to death in front of a mob of hundreds in a field south of the city.
The lynching was the last in Pennsylvania and is said to have left a permanent stain on the city's image. After World War II the steel trade began a long decline, but in the 1960s Lukens Steel was still the biggest employer in Chester County, with over 10,000 workers.
Since the turn of the century, Coatesville has invested in redevelopment, encouraging private projects.
A new Marriott Courtyard hotel, assembled along Route 82 on the outskirts of Coatesville, opened in May 2012. The town/city has primary opportunity to redefine itself as 4 out of 5 of its census tracts are eligible to receive a several federal and state economic evolution grants for economic redevelopment and populace health.
The latest activeness involves hedging all economic evolution on the downtown region only, partnering with Wells Fargo amongst the rest without an accomplishment to complete a populace community plan for the town/city first, a formula for gentrification.
A lack of consensus actions has plagued the town/city throughout the new millennium and is the reason for a cycle of starts and stops, the most prominent involving an eminent domain dispute regarding the attempted creation of a town/city owned golf course.
See Coatesville Growing Greater www.coatesvillegrowinggreater.org It was resolved without the need to seize the property, but displeasure with the affairs resulted in the town/city voters turning out four incumbent town/city councilpersons in the November 2005 general elections.
The town/city council fired the town/city solicitor, and accepted the resignation of the town/city manager (who had negotiated with the Valley Township landowner).
A series of arsons took place in the town/city from 2007 to early 2009. A December 2008 fire at a Strode Avenue home resulted in the death of Irene Kempest, an 83-year-old World War II Holocaust survivor.
In 1969 Lukens Steel forged steel beams for the World Trade Center to be constructed in New York City. Some of these beams, known as "trees", remained standing after the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks.
Ten of the "trees" that remained were transported to Coatesville on April 15, 2010.
The Coatesville Historic District, Clement Atkinson Memorial Hospital, High Bridge, Abram Huston House and Carriage House, Lukens Historic District, Lukens Main Office Building, National Bank of Coatesville Building, and Terracina are resources listed on the National Register of Historic Places. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 1.9 square miles (4.9 km2), of which 0.53% is water.
Climate data for Coatesville, Pennsylvania The 2010 United States Enumeration stated there were 13,100 citizens , 4,498 homeholds, and 2,889 families residing in the city, with a populace density of 6,894.7 citizens per square mile (2,673.5/km ).
In the city, the populace was spread out, with 30.4% under the age of 18.
Coatesville had 4,998 housing units, of which 90.2% were occupied.
In 2000, the median income for a homehold in the town/city was $29,912, and the median income for a family was $36,375.
The chief east west road serving Coatesville is US 30, which bypasses the town/city to the north on a freeway and provides access to Lancaster to the west and Philadelphia to the east.
US 30 Business runs east west through the heart of the town/city on Lincoln Highway.
PA 82 is the chief north south road in Coatesville, running along Strode Avenue, Lincoln Highway, and North 1st Avenue, and heading north to Elverson and south to Kennett Square.
PA 340 passes to the north of the town/city while PA 372 begins at PA 82 in Coatesville and heads west on Valley Road to Parkesburg and Atglen. Coatesville is served by the Coatesville Amtrak Station, which serves Keystone Service trains along the Keystone Corridor. Until 1997, the station also served SEPTA's R5 county-wide rail line from Philadelphia.
Two bus services serve Coatesville.
The Transportation Management Association of Chester County's Coatesville Link serves multiple points of interest between Coatesville and Parkesburg while Krapf's Transit's Route A joins Coatesville with Downingtown, Exton, and West Chester. Rodney Anonymous, beginning members of punk band The Dead Milkmen, both interval up in the Coatesville Area Rebecca Lukens, owner of Lukens Steel Company, "America's first female CEO of an industrialized company." Claude Rains, famous British actor with four Oscar nominations, owned a farm near Coatesville Dennis Downey, with Raymond Hyser, Coatesville and the Lynching of Zachariah Walker (revised 20th anniversary edition, 2011) Images of America: Coatesville; Charleston, South Carolina; Arcadia Press; 2003; pp 7-8.
City of Coatesville website "Rebecca Lukens", National Steel Heritage Museum House Fires", ABC News, ABC News, archived from the initial on 2009-06-11, retrieved 2013-12-03 a b Brady Shea, Kathleen (2010-06-08), "Coatesville arsonist sentenced to 60 years", Philadelphia Inquirer, ABC News, archived from the initial on 2010-06-08, retrieved 2013-12-03 "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
Chester County, Pennsylvania (Map) (17th ed.).
Public Transportation Serving Chester County (PDF) (Map).
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