Historic
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Meet George Washington, Revolutionary War Soldier at Chadds Ford Days Festival Saturday and Sunday
The Chadds Ford Historical Society is hosting the 52nd annual Chadds Ford Days festival. Don’t miss out on joining the community for this family and dog friendly event that commemorates the Battle of the Brandywine that took place on Sept. 11, 1777. Come relive history with your family and friends in Chadds Ford on Sept.…
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Share Your 9/11 Story
While it may not seem possible, the 16th anniversary of 9/11 is next Monday. Take our five-question survey and tell us where you were, what you were doing, your most vivid memory of the day and what impact, if any, the events of that day had on your life. The questions will remain open until…
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Coatesville’s National Iron & Steel Heritage Museum Displays Two Centuries of Art, Technology, and History
National Iron & Steel Heritage Museum in Coatesville offers a peek into the local manufacturing history and the legacy of nation’s first female industrialist, Rebecca Lukens, writes Stone Lieberman for Chester County Press. Lukens, who was an educated Quaker, went from being a pregnant widow in the 1800s running a small steel mill, to a…
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Budweiser Clydesdales Return to West Chester on Thursday
The Budweiser Clydesdales are back. Grab your cameras and watch as the horses clippity-clop along Gay and Market streets in West Chester, delivering their favorite adult beverage to participating bars and restaurants on Thursday, Aug. 31. It all starts at Gay and Matlack streets, then proceeds west to Darlington, south to Market, and east to…
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Breakthrough Discovered in Deaths of Irish Rail Workers in 1830s in Malvern
A new discovery has emerged about the deaths of 57 Irish railroad workers at Duffy’s Cut in Chester County in the early 1830s, writes Genevieve Glatsky for the Philadelphia Inquirer. The young Irish immigrants came to the United States to work on the old Philadelphia & Columbia line in Malvern. However, all of the workers…
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New Superintendent Assumes the Reins at Valley Forge National Historical Park
Valley Forge National Historical Park has found its new superintendent in Steve Sims, a former facility manager at Independence National Historic Park, writes Mark Abrams for CBS Philly. A California native, the 43-year-old graduated from West Point and spent six years serving in the Army before joining the park service. In his new position, Sims…
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Exton Couple Seeks Return of Revered Statue to Italian Shrine
Despite frightening four generations of the Nader family, a long-lost statue of Saint Pantaleon survived for decades to finally be delivered to the Italian shrine it was always meant to inhabit, according to a NewsWorks report by Peter Crimmins. Exton residents Ed and Kathleen Nader will return to Montauro, Italy, this Fall to celebrate the…
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Undeterred by 2015 Rejection, Supporters of Paoli Battlefield Petition for National Register
The battle that American revolutionaries fought and lost at Paoli on Sept. 20, 1777 inspired a battle cry – “Remember Paoli” – that would live on to rally American troops in the War of 1812, the Spanish-American War, and even the world wars, according to a Philadelphia Inquirer report by Michaelle Bond. And now a…
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Kennett Square Resident, Renowned Author Revives Vietnam’s Bloodiest Battle
His words have awakened vivid portrayals of life on the front lines, from the Battle of Mogadishu — that inspired Black Hawk Down — to the war on drug lord Pablo Escobar, the Iranian hostage crisis, the hunt for Osama bin Laden, and now the Vietnam War’s battle for Huế. Inquirer reporter, author, and now…
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Downingtown Auction House Sells Rare British Plate from 1738
Downingtown’s Pook & Pook auction house has sold a rare Liverpool delft plate from 1738 for nearly $30,000, writes Norman Watson for The Courier, a newspaper in Dundee, Scotland. The auction house, which is located in a historic stone inn built in 1761, recently held an international sale that offered 500 lots from several states,…
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Kennett Square Man Quietly Chips Away at History’s Mysteries
One millimeter at a time, he chips rock from ancient bone through the lens of a microscope. And when Fred Mullison of Kennett Square pulls his head back to see the bigger picture, he’s holding revelations of the past in his hands. The longtime fossil preparator for Drexel University’s Academy of Natural Sciences played a…
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Most Important Stone Along Mason-Dixon Line Has Survived Centuries in Newlin Township
When they mapped out their famous border in the eighteenth century, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon used Chester County as the starting point, writes Bill Rettew for the Daily Local News. This point, near Embreeville in Newlin Township, is marked with one of the stones that were placed a mile apart along Pennsylvania’s border with…
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Uwchlan Township Announces Dedication of New Veterans War Memorial
The Uwchlan Township Board of Supervisors has announced its latest addition to Baird Park and the township campus with a memorial honoring all veterans and their families. The memorial proudly sits alongside the historic Uwchlan trail, and will serve as a place of tranquility and remembrance where families, friends, and individuals can pause to remember…
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Chester County Historical Society Elects New Slate of Officers to Board of Trustees
The Chester County Historical Society has elected a new slate of officers to its Board of Trustees. Jim Sargent, a partner and chairman of Lamb McErlane’s Appellate and Advisory Group and Litigation Department, has been elected to serve as Board chair. “I am honored to serve as chair of the Board of Trustees at such…
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Pennsylvania’s Wealthiest Resident Is …
Like many of America’s wealthiest, Pennsylvania’s richest person has ridden the stock market to new highs this year. Mary Alice Dorrance Malone added more than a half-billion dollars to her inherited Campbell’s Soup fortune, growing it from $3.2 billion at the end of 2015 to $3.8 billion as of June 9, according to a Forbes…
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Chester County Leadership: Elizabeth Laurent, President, Chester County Historical Society
Elizabeth Laurent, President of the Chester County Historical Society, speaks with VISTA Today about growing up in Alexandria, Va., as the youngest of four children born in five years. Interestingly, her father was a television critic for The Washington Post before the family had a television in its house. Laurent dishes on her love for…
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Anti-Irish, Anti-Catholic Sentiment Led to Vigilante Violence at Duffy’s Cut
Fresh off a boat from Ireland, 57 people working on the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad are thought to have contracted cholera, were murdered, and thrown in a mass grave near Malvern now known as Duffy’s Cut. Today, 185 years later, a donation-funded dig is giving their remains a proper burial, according to an IrishCentral report…
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Restored Vietnam Huey Headlines Helicopter Museum’s FatherFest
The Vietnam War was known as “The Helicopter War” due to the versatility of rotary wing aircraft during the conflict. The Bell UH-1 Iroquois “Huey” became the war’s symbol as it effortlessly rescued, deployed, transported, supplied, and supported the troops. One of these iconic workhorses that’s now an artist’s sculpture, entitled “Take Me Home Huey,”…
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