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Publisher’s note: This Chester County Leadership profile was first published July 1, 2015.
In 1924, when Alexander Duie Pyle and his wife Mary Ellen…
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…
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…
The history of Chester County is in safer hands following a pair of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Money for an expert…
Are you a fan of the television show Who Do You Think You Are? Would you like to learn where you come from?
Join others…
Tickets are now on sale for the 35th Annual Chester County Antiques Show, a benefit for the Chester County Historical Society, scheduled for April 7…
The Chester County Historical Society continuously ties together people, places, and stories from several centuries in ways that inform, surprise, and excite us. Nowhere is…
Founded in 1893, the Chester County Historical Society is the official county history museum, history education center, and historical repository of Chester County. As such…
Downingtown’s internationally acclaimed artist Adrian Martinez will present a special evening event on November 4 at the Chester County Historical Society that showcases the…
He invented centrifugal cream separators and pioneered a global empire based in West Chester before the Great Depression. He claims credit for having the largest…
The mystery behind a 135-year-old family legend of “a lost ancestor in a foreign land” was finally solved last year in Chester County…
After one-and-a-half years of leading the Chester County Historical Society through difficult times, the future of Acting and Interim President David B…
An original Chester County film set in the early days of the Internet is now available to buy or rent online.
After numerous special screenings…
Editor’s Note: This Chester County Leadership profile of Andy Dinniman was originally published on August 26th, 2015.
From the time he was elected a…
Chester County Commissioner Michelle Kichline will now help record the local history she’s making as one of the county’s top three decision-makers…
When internationally renowned Downingtown artist Adrian Martinez took a recent stroll through the woods of history, he walked back in time to parts of Chester…
Here’s what’s happening this weekend in Chester County Datebook.
On Friday, the Chester County Planning Commission will hold a workshop entitled How to…
Get ready to follow compelling characters like a Korean housewife, a black cyclist, and an Indian doctor, and watch stunning storylines that wrestle with racial…
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