Chester

Midlands

Downtown location, continental breakfast, and restaurants nearby. Outdoor pool; modem line in rooms, and pets allowed with fee. AAA, AARP, and corporate discounts available. Read More

Chester

Midlands

Founded 1852, cemetery, first African-American congregation in the county. Read More

Chester

Midlands

Begun in 1866 as a brush arbor church, built of poles, tree branches and bushes by freed slaves. The first wooden structure was built by the church's congregation in 1874. It was replaced by the current brick Romanesque Revival building in 1913.... Read More

Chester

Midlands

Chester County Historical Society Museum houses notable collections of Native American artifacts, firearms from the Revolutionary era to the present, period costumes and relics from the Civil War, and a recreated late 18th-century parlor of Samuel... Read More

Chester

Midlands

This site is considered one of the largest African-American cemeteries in Chester County. Please call the church or the Chester County library (803-377-8145) for detailed directions and more information. Read More

Chester

Midlands

Learning of the disaster at Camden, Patriot Gen. Thomas Sumter pulled his troops northward and camped at Fishing Creek near Great Falls. Lt. Col. Banastre Tarleton's mounted troops riding double caught up with Sumter's men on August 18, 1780 and overran... Read More