The Chester County, Pennsylvania Histories book collection is a group of 25 books that detail the history of Chester County - primarily in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Many of the books are illustrated; showcasing specific events relating to key points in the history and development of Chester County during this period as well as details of some of its most important and influential figures.

All the titles contained on this CD are listed below.

1. History of Downingtown, Chester County, Pa (1909) - Pennypacker, Charles H - 215 pages
2. History of First Presbyterian Church of West Chester, Pa. (1909) - Laird, Washington R. - 124 pages
3. History of Chester County, Pennsylvania, with genealogical and biographical sketches (1881) - Futhey, John Smith; Cope, Gilbert - 1161 pages
4. A genealogical record of the descendants of John and Mary Palmer of Concord, Chester (now Delaware) Co., Pa. : in two divisions, Palmer-Trimble. Palmer division, embracing also, largely, the surnames: Almond, Arinent, Baker, Baldwin, Biiffingtou, Chamberlain (or lin), Clark, Coffman, Cope, Darlington, Davis, Dutton, Earle, Eavenson, Fox, Garrett, Gilpin, Good, Grubb, Hackney, Hall, Hatton, Hoopes, JefFeris, Jones, Kester, Larkin, McCauley, Martin, Meeteer, Mercer, Morris, Newlin, Perdue, Pyle, Smith, Taylor, Thatcher, Way, Wheeland, Wood, Worrell, Wyly, Yarnall, and others. (1910) - Palmer, Lewis - 1247 pages
5. Chester and vicinity (1914) - Smith, Henry Valentine - 152 pages
6. Bi-centennial of old Kennett meeting house, Kennett Township, Chester Co., Pa. (1910) - 133 pages
7. A Full Description of the Great Tornado in Chester County, Pa (1877) - Richard Darlington - 36 pages
8. Directory of the borough of Chester (1859) - 141 pages
9. Bulletins of the Chester County Historical Society (1898) - 1282 pages
10. The port of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, including Camden, N.J., Chester, Pa., Wilmington, Del. (1922) - 438 pages
11. Historical sketch of Chester, on Delaware (1883) - Ashmead, Henry Graham, 1838; Johnson, William Shaler; Penn - 382 pages
12. Proceedings on the occasion of the dedication of the monument on the one hundredth anniversary of the Paoli Massacre, in Chester County, Pa., September 20, 1877 (1877) - 90 pages
13. History and genealogy of the Harlan family, and particularly of the descendants of George and Michael Harlan, who settled in Chester County, Pa., 1687 (1914) - Harlan, Alpheus H. (Alpheus Hibben) - 1133 pages
14. History of the Presbyterian Church in the forks of Brandywine, Chester County, Pa., (Brandywine Manor Presbyterian Church,) from A.D. 1734 to A.D. 1885 (1885) - M'Clune, James - 285 pages
15. West Chester, past and present; centennial souvenir with celebration proceedings (1899) - 297 pages
16. Proprietary tax lists of the county of Chester 1765-1771 (1897) - 820 pages
17. Proprietary tax lists of the county of Chester 1774, 1779-1781, 1785 (1897) - 852 pages
18. A history of the Reformed Churches in Chester County (1892) - Fluck, Jonathan Lewis - 206 pages
19. Proceedings of the sesqui-centennial gathering of the descendants of Isaac and Ann Jackson : at Harmony Grove, Chester Co., Pa., eighth month, twenty-fifth, 1875 : together with the family genealogy (1878) - Jackson, Halliday - 417 pages
20. Proceedings of the Bi-centennial gathering of the descendants of Henry Hayes at Unionville, Chester County, Pa., September 2nd, 1905, together with a partial genealogy and other material relating to the family .. (1906) - Harry, Stephen C; Windle, Thomas Hayes; Hayes, Jacob Carroll - 154 pages
21. Reunion of the Ninety-seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, October 29th, 1884 ... at Camp Wayne, West Chester, Pa. An account of the proceedings with a roster of the comrades present (1884) - Price, Isaiah - 144 pages
22. Directory of the borough of West Chester for 1857 : containing a complete history of the borough .. (1857) - Darlington, William - 175 pages
23. Genealogy of the Smedley Family, descended from George and Sarah Smedley, settlers in Chester County, Pennsylvania : with brief notices of other families of the name, and abstracts of early English wills : published pursuant to the will of Samuel Lightfoot Smedley, of Philadelphia, Pa. (1901) - Cope, Gilbert - 1205 pages
24. The history of the Old Eagle School, Tredyffrin, in Chester County, Pennsylvania : with alphabetical lists of interments in the graveyard and of German settlers in Chester County, and a poem presenting the suggestive features of the place (1909) - Pleasants, Henry - 228 pages
25. Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Chester County, Pennsylvania : comprising a historical sketch of the county, by Samuel T. Wiley, together with more than five hundred biographical sketches of the prominent men and leading citizens of the county (1893) - Garner, Winfield Scott; Wiley, Samuel T - 912 pages

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