West Chester, Pennsylvania West Chester Buckwalter West Chest Chester County From top left: (1) West Chester Downtown Historic District, (2) Buckwalter Building, (3) West Chester University of Pennsylvania, (4) Chester County Courthouse, and (5) Farmers and Mechanics Building.
Location in Chester County and the state of Pennsylvania.
Location in Chester County and the state of Pennsylvania.
West Chester is positioned in Pennsylvania West Chester - West Chester County Chester West Chester is a borough and the governmental center of county of Chester County, Pennsylvania in the U.S.
West Chester University of Pennsylvania and the Chester County government are positioned inside the borough.
8 West Chester in media Main article: History of West Chester, Pennsylvania The region was originally known as Turk's Head after the inn of the same name positioned in what is now the center of the borough. West Chester has been the seat of government in Chester County since 1786 when the seat was moved from close-by Chester in what is now Delaware County.
Walter, one of the architects for the Capitol in Washington, D.C. In the 18th century West Chester was a center of clockmaking.
And Darlington business became a primary wheelworks, first for wagons and later automobiles. In the early 20th century, an meaningful industry was the Sharples cream separator company. In the late 20th century, Commodore International, one of the pioneers of home computers, giving its command posts as West Chester, was positioned approximately a mile northeast of the borough. The West Chester Downtown Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
Other listed buildings are the Bank of Chester County, Buckwalter Building, Butler House, Chester County Courthouse, William Everhart Buildings, Farmers and Mechanics Building, First Presbyterian Church of West Chester, New Century Clubhouse, Joseph Rothrock House, Sharples Homestead, Sharples Separator Works, Warner Theater, West Chester Boarding School for Boys, and the components of the West Chester State College Quadrangle Historic District. West Goshen Township borders West Chester to the north, south, and east, while East Bradford Township borders West Chester to the west.
The borough straddles the Brandywine Creek and Chester Creek watersheds. It is positioned 25 miles (40 km) west of Philadelphia and 17 miles (27 km) north of Wilmington, Delaware.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the borough has a total region of 1.8 square miles (5 km2), all of it land.
As with much of Eastern Pennsylvania east of the Appalachian mountain peaks, West Chester straddles the humid continental (Koppen: Dfa ) and humid subtropical (Koppen: Cfa ) climate zones, with generally more characteristics of the former than the latter. Summers are hot and humid and winters are cold but variable.
Annual high temperatures average between 39.0 F (3.9 C) and 85.4 F (29.7 C), annual low temperatures average between 22.2 F ( 5.4 C) and 64.4 F (18.0 C), with the record high being 105 F (41 C), and record low being 16 F ( 27 C). Climate data for West Chester, Pennsylvania Old Chester County Courthouse.
The new Chester County Justice Center is positioned at West Market St.
QVC has its command posts and tv studios in West Goshen Township, near West Chester.
Electronics Boutique, when it existed as an autonomous company, had its command posts in West Goshen Township, in adjacency to West Chester. Among the primary shopping centers in the region is Bradford Plaza, a 22-acre property with a 161,000-square foot center which sold in 2014 to New York Life for US$35,700,000. The West Chester Public Library has provided library services to region residents since 1872.
The Daily Local News is a daily journal headquartered in West Chester that covers Chester County affairs. The Quad is the student-run journal of West Chester University.
Boyhood home of Samuel Barber in West Chester, Pennsylvania Joseph Hemphill, United States House of Representatives member, practiced law in West Chester Joseph Rothrock, botanist and surroundingalist, died in West Chester in 1922 West Chester Transportation Center The chief east-west road to West Chester is West Chester Pike, which begins in Upper Darby, Delaware County, just outside Philadelphia, and is part of Pennsylvania Route 3 (PA 3). The West Chester Pike originally existed as a private turnpike connecting Philadelphia and West Chester between 1850 and 1918, at which time it became a enhance road. In West Chester, PA 3 follows Market Street eastbound and Gay Street westbound.
The chief north-south road in West Chester is High Street.
To the south of town, the road is known as Wilmington-West Chester Pike (US 202 and US 322).
US 202 and US 322 both bypass the center of West Chester on the limited-access West Chester Bypass, with US 202 heading northeast to King of Prussia and south to Wilmington, Delaware and US 322 heading northwest to Downingtown and southeast to Chester.
US 322 Business passes through West Chester along Hannum Avenue, Chestnut and Market streets, and South High Street.
Other state routes serving West Chester include PA 162 and PA 842, which head west towards Unionville, and PA 52, which heads southwest towards Kennett Square. West Chester is home to the West Chester Transportation Center, which serves as a parking garage for the Chester County Justice Center and a bus terminal, which is positioned on the lower level of the facility.
Two of SEPTA's Suburban Division bus routes serve West Chester.
The Route 92 bus joins West Chester to the Exton Transportation Center and the King of Prussia Transit Center while the Route 104 bus runs between West Chester University and the 69th Street Transportation Center, mostly following West Chester Pike. The Route 104 bus replaced a street car service that connected West Chester to Philadelphia along the West Chester Pike between 1898 and the 1950s. West Chester is also served by the Transportation Management Association of Chester County's SCCOOT, which provides service to Kennett Square and Oxford, and Krapf's Transit's Route A, which provides service to Exton, Downingtown, and Coatesville. Until September 1986, West Chester was served by SEPTA's R3 commuter rail line, then known as the Media/West Chester line.
Service on the line was discontinued because of poor track conditions west of the Elwyn station.
At the time, SEPTA had limited funds for the necessary repairs, and offered Chester County the option of either grade the rail line or expanding parking availability at the close-by Exton station on SEPTA's Paoli/Thorndale Line.
The rail line into West Chester is used by the West Chester Railroad, a tradition barns . West Chester in media A documentary, Our Lady Of Victory, later released as "The Mighty Macs", filmed many scenes in and around West Chester, including Jimmy Johns, and the Armory Building.
Marley & Me, starring Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson, filmed scenes in West Chester in 2008. In succeeding the term-limited incumbent, Republican Dick Yoder, Comitta became West Chester's first ever female Mayor, and the first Democrat to hold the office since 1992. The West Chester Area School District, an autonomous entity, manages the area's enhance school system, which includes three high schools (Henderson High School, West Chester East High School, Rustin High School), three middle schools (E.N.
Stetson Middle school), and ten elementary schools (East Bradford Elementary, East Goshen Elementary, Exton Elementary, Fern Hill Elementary, Glen Acres Elementary, Hillsdale Elementary, Mary C.
West Chester University is positioned in the borough, south of the commercial and retail center.
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