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About Chester County, PA

Chester County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania . As of 2011, the population was 500,182. The county seat is West Chester . It is the highest-income county in Pennsylvania and 24th highest in the nation as measured by median household income . Eastern Chester County is home to many communities that comprise the Main Line western suburbs of Philadelphia, while part of its southernmost portion is considered suburban Wilmington, Delaware , along with southwest Delaware County . Chester County was one of the three original Pennsylvania counties created by William Penn in 1682. It was named for Cheshire , England . It is part of the Delaware Valley region and is the only Delaware Valley county in Pennsylvania that does not actually border Philadelphia , though it comes close.

History of Chester County, PA

Philadelphia , Bucks , and Chester were the three Pennsylvania counties initially created by William Penn on August 24, 1682. At that time, Chester County's borders were Philadelphia County to the north, the western edge of the colony to the west, the Delaware River to the east, and Delaware and Maryland to the south. Chester County replaced the Pennsylvania portion of New Netherland / New York ’s Upland , which was officially eliminated when Pennsylvania was chartered on March 4, 1681, but did not actually cease to exist until June of that year. Much of the Welsh Tract was in eastern Chester County and Welsh place names continue to predominate there. The fourth county in the state, Lancaster County , was formed from Chester County on May 10, 1729. On March 11, 1752, Berks County was formed from the northern section of Chester County, as well as parts of Lancaster and Philadelphia Counties. The original Chester County seat was the naval shipbuilding city of Chester . However, it became part of Delaware County when that county was formed from the eastern portion of the Chester County on September 26, 1789. This took the county seat out of Chester County, so West Chester became the new county seat that year, and has remained so to the present. Much of the history of Chester County arises from its location between Philadelphia and the Susquehanna River.

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