Local buses traverse Route 30 along the Main Line, and Paoli Pike is the main artery for buses heading to West Chester.

Just south of it, on Pottstown Pike, is Beth Israel Congregation of Chester County ( founded 1904 ), Upper Uwchlan's only synagogue.

13 follows Morton Avenue in the city's Sun Village section until it crosses Ridley Creek and becomes Chester Pike in Eddystone.

Major routes through and around Edgmont include Pennsylvania Route 3 ( West Chester Pike ), and Pennsylvania Route 352 ( Middletown Road ).

The state historical marker which was on Chester Pike says " Folcroft: Old English for leafy green meadow / field.

The Hahn-Cooke Farm was centered at Cooke Avenue and Chester Pike where the farmhouse still stands.

Needing access to Chester Pike, Wood-Harmon Co. bought the farm in late 1895 and named it Warwick Annex.

Chester Pike was a toll road from the 1850¹s until 1921 when the state bought the Road.

The school district of Darby Township had the " Southern " School on Calcon Hook Road close to Ashland Avenue & the " Western " school on Oak Avenue at Chester Pike.

John Russ, who maintains a website called The Best Philly Cheesesteaks says that his choice is Leo's at 1403 Chester Pike in suburban Folcroft, Delaware County.

Located on West Chester Pike on the grounds of Dunwoody Village.

Chester Pike, originally a footpath, was realigned and widened by William Penn.

Consequently, a private elementary subscription school was founded in 1800 on a site at Chester Pike and Myrtle Avenue.

Undaunted, he traveled further south on Chester Pike to the area now known as Ridley Park.

Chester Pike ( US-13 ) runs through the borough providing easy access into and through Sharon Hill.

After Aldan, it returns to its own right-of-way, then passes through Collingdale before terminating at Chester Pike in Sharon Hill.

The direct ancestor of the SEPTA Route 104 bus line went to West Chester, splitting off from the rest of the system right after 69th Street Terminal onto West Chester Pike.

The tracks continued all the way up West Chester Pike.

West Chester trolleys were replaced by buses in 1954 due to widening of West Chester Pike ; rush-hour trips to Westgate Hills lasted until 1958.

Image: SEPTA K-Car Suburban. jpg | Media-Sharon Hill Line trolley car at West Chester Pike & Garrett Road near 69th Street Terminal

Additionally, while the street grid ends at Cobbs Creek Park along with the western political boundary of Philadelphia, many of the street names and a roughly similar street grid ( it begins to degrade outside the city ) continue beyond the city limits into Upper Darby Township, into which Market Street runs uninterrupted to 69th street at the El terminal, where it turns into West Chester Pike and runs through Delaware County and into Chester County.

Not only is Mr. Frelinghuysen a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, but he is the grandson of the man who was instrumental in opening relations between the United States and Korea, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Secretary of State in the administration of Chester A. Arthur.

Col. Clifton Lisle, of Chester Springs, who headed the Troop Committee for much of its second and third decades, is now an honorary member.

Dr. Hester, of Princeton, N.J., is a native of Chester, Pa. He joined NYU in September, 1960.

Li ' l Abner also features a comic strip-within-the-strip: Fearless Fosdick is a parody of Chester Gould's Dick Tracy.

He also often employed inanimate objects in his films, often transforming them into other objects in an almost surreal way, such as in The Pawnshop ( 1916 ) and One A. M. ( 1916 ), where Chaplin is the only actor aside Chester Conklin's brief appearance in the very first scene.

Commodore is the commonly used collective name for Commodore International Limited and the various national companies that operated underneath it, including Commodore Business Machines ( CBM ), the U. S .- based home computer and electronics manufacturer with headquarters in West Chester, Pennsylvania that it shared with its parent.

The Dubhlinn was situated where the Castle Garden is now located, opposite the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin Castle.

Subsequently, the Chester Beatty library was able to track down and buy a further 42 leaves, so that now approximately eighty per cent of the Syriac commentary is available ( McCarthy 1994 ).

* Jennersville, Pennsylvania, is located in Chester County.

The song " Going to the Chapel " is then played as we see Henrietta marry a member of the guard, Scarlett marry Chester, David marry his girlfriend, Tom marry his distant cousin Deirdre ( whom he met at Charles's wedding and instantly fell for ), Matthew with a new partner ( Duncan Kenworthy ), Fiona marry Prince Charles ( a joke ), and Charles and Carrie with their son -- presumably not married.

* 1945 – World War II: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz is placed in command of all U. S. Naval forces in preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima and Okinawa in Japan.

In the 1994 comedy Airheads ( in which he is credited as " Lemmy von Motörhead "), one scene involving Brendan Fraser, Adam Sandler, and Steve Buscemi, has Brendan Fraser's character, " Chazz " Chester Darvey talking to an undercover cop who is pretending to be a record executive — Chazz asks him, " Who'd win in a wrestling match, Lemmy or God?

It is housed at the Chester Beatty Library.

* 1881 – Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st President of the United States following the assassination of James Garfield.

** WWII ends: The final official surrender of Japan is accepted by the Supreme Allied Commander, General Douglas MacArthur, and Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz for the United States, and delegates from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, China, and others from a Japanese delegation led by Mamoru Shigemitsu, on board the American battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

* July 18 – Howard Hughes is sentenced to life imprisonment at Chester Crown Court for the rape and murder of 7-year-old Sophie Hook at Llandudno 12 months previously.

* September 20 – U. S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in.

* Marcus Trebellius Maximus, governor of Britannia, is forced the flee to Gaul after a mutiny of Legio XX Valeria Victrix at Deva Victrix ( Chester ).

* Chester is founded as a castrum or Roman fort with the name Deva Victrix.

The most complete is the York cycle of forty-eight pageants ; there are also the Towneley plays of thirty-two pageants, once thought to have been a true ' cycle ' of plays acted at Wakefield ; the Ludus Coventriae ( also called the N Town plays " or Hegge cycle ), now generally agreed to be a redacted compilation of at least three older, unrelated plays, and the Chester cycle of twenty-four pageants, now generally agreed to be an Elizabethan reconstruction of older medieval traditions.

While the Chester pageants are associated with guilds, there is no indication that the N-Town plays are either associated with guilds or performed on pageant wagons.

The John Dalton Building, located on Chester Street is the home of the Faculty of Science and Engineering.

A statue is outside the John Dalton Building of the Manchester Metropolitan University in Chester Street which has been moved from Piccadilly.