Downingtown, Pennsylvania Borough of Downingtown Downingtown Log Downingtown Log House Chester County Pennsylvania incorporated and unincorporated areas Downingtown highlighted.svg Location in Chester County and the state of Pennsylvania.
Location of Pennsylvania in the United States Downingtown is a borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 33 miles (53 km) west of Philadelphia.
Downingtown was settled by English and European colonists in the early 18th century and has a number of historic buildings and structures.
Around the time of the American Revolution, Milltown became more generally known as Downingtown after the prominent businessman Thomas Downing, a Quaker immigrant in 1717 from Bradninch, Devon, England, who owned a number of those mills.
The town was officially titled Downingtown in 1812.
Construction of the Pennsylvania Turnpike started in the early 1940s and was instead of in the early 1950s; it runs north of US 30, bypassing Downingtown.
About 1705 Sami Warren assembled what has turn into known as the Downingtown Log House.
Downing died and left it to the borough of Downingtown.
The borough did some restoration work to the Downingtown Log House in 1947.
It served as the home to the Downingtown Chamber of Commerce from 1950 until 1988.
From 1988 until 1990 the Downingtown Historical Society relocated the home and did an extensive restoration with cash raised for the project.
Creditt, prominent black Philadelphians, established the Downingtown Industrial and Agricultural School (DIAS) in Downingtown, to serve as an academic and vocational high school for black youths to prepare them for work. Creditt was pastor of the First African Baptist Church in Philadelphia, and Trower, a prosperous caterer and one of the wealthiest black businessmen in the nation, was a member of his congregation. Believing the North needed a school like the Tuskegee Institute, the men found territory in Chester County and assembled the school on a 100-acre campus. They both served as principals until their respective deaths in 1921 (Creditt) and 1921. Originally a private, non-denominational school, in 1907 DIAS began to be state supported.
A new facility was constructed on the property and opened in 2002 as the Chester County ground of the Delaware County Community College.
Downingtown is the locale of some large county-wide and nationwide businesses, including DNB (Downingtown National Bank), First National Bank of Chester County, and Victory Brewing Company.
President Lincoln's funeral train passed through Downingtown.
124, Downingtown Log House, East Lancaster Avenue Historic District, General Washington Inn, and Roger Hunt Mill are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Downtown Downingtown The 1958 movie, The Blob, was filmed in and around Downingtown.
The diner featured in the movie, then called the "Downingtown Diner", was sold and transported to another state and has been replaced with a similar 50's style diner.
Downingtown is positioned at 40 0 23 N 75 42 22 W (40.006406, 75.706239). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the borough has a total region of 2.2 square miles (5.7 km2), all of it land.
At the 2010 census, the borough was 76.0% non-Hispanic White, 12.0% Black or African American, 0.1% Native American, 2.7% Asian, 0.1% Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, and 3.2% were two or more competitions.
Downingtown has a large populace of inhabitants that have Italian ancestry.
The borough's populace is spread out, with 25.3% under the age of 18, 8.7% from 18 to 24, 32.6% from 25 to 44, 19.2% from 45 to 64, and 14.1% who were 65 years of age or older.
About 3.0% of families and 4.8% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 5.2% of those under age 18 and 5.3% of those age 65 or over.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Downingtown has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. Climate data for Downingtown, Pennsylvania Main article: Downingtown Area School District Beaver Creek Elementary School Downingtown Middle School Downingtown High School East Campus Downingtown High School West Campus Downingtown S.T.E.M.
Shamona Creek Elementary School West Bradford Elementary School Chester County Intermediate Unit homes a several offices and special services in Downingtown.
US 30 (Downingtown Coatesville Bypass) Downingtown Station Downingtown station is positioned along the Lincoln Highway and is served by both SEPTA Regional Rail's Paoli/Thorndale Line and Amtrak's Keystone Service.
"Log House" Archived July 26, 2011, at the Wayback Machine., Downington Historical Society a b c d e "Background Note", Downington Industrial and Agricultural School Collection,, Charles F.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
"Incorporated Places and Minor Civil Divisions Datasets: Subcounty Resident Population Estimates: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2012".
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