Museum · West Chester, Chester County
Chester County History Center
The county's history museum and research library, with tall-case clocks, early furniture, quilts and historic clothing, and exhibits on three centuries of local stories.
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West Chester
The Chester County seat, a handsome college town of brick and green serpentine stone, with a Greek Revival courthouse and a lively downtown of restaurants and shops.
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Brandywine Battlefield Park
Part of the ground of the 1777 Battle of Brandywine, one of the largest battles of the Revolution, with the farmhouses used as quarters by Washington and Lafayette.
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Chadds Ford
A Brandywine Valley village known for the Wyeth family of painters, the Brandywine Museum of Art and the 1777 Battle of Brandywine.
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Brandywine Museum of Art
Three generations of Wyeth family art in a converted 19th-century grist mill on the Brandywine River, surrounded by native-plant gardens.
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Longwood Gardens
Pierre S. du Pont's garden masterpiece: a vast conservatory, dancing fountains, meadow and woodland walks, and a famous holiday light display.
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Ridley Creek State Park
Wooded hills and meadows along a trout stream, with a paved multi-use loop, bridle paths and the old mill village of Sycamore Mills; the Tyler Arboretum is right next door.
