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Incorporated in 1682, Chester is the oldest city in Pennsylvania [6] and was the location of William Penn's first arrival in the Province of Pennsylvania. It was the county seat for Chester County from 1682 to 1788 and of Delaware County from 1789 to 1851.
The oldest public building in continuous use in the United States; served as a courthouse from 1724 until 1851, and the town hall until the 1960s; now used for miscellaneous city, county and civic functions [9]
The Chester Courthouse is a historic courthouse in Chester, Pennsylvania that served as the Chester County courthouse from 1724 to 1789, the Delaware County courthouse from 1789 to 1850 and the City Hall for the city of Chester. It was built in 1724 and is the oldest public building still standing in the United States. [3]
Map of the United States with Pennsylvania highlighted. There are 56 municipalities classified as cities in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. [1] Each city is further classified based on population, with Philadelphia being of the first class, Pittsburgh of the second class, Scranton of the second class A, and the remaining 53 cities being of the third class.
This is a List of National Historic Landmarks in Pennsylvania. There are 169 in the state. ... The oldest municipal waterworks in the nation. ... Harrison City 2 ...
Trout Hall, built in 1770 by James Allen, the son of Allentown founder William Allen, is the oldest house in Allentown. Allentown, Pennsylvania, established in 1762, the third-largest city in Pennsylvania and largest city in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania.
It is a core city within South Central Pennsylvania, with 552,984 residents in the Lancaster metropolitan area. Settled in the 1720s, Lancaster is one of the oldest inland cities in the US. It served as the capital of Pennsylvania from 1799 to 1812.
Allentown, the largest city in the Lehigh Valley, third-largest city in Pennsylvania, and county seat of Lehigh County Trout Hall, built in 1770 by James Allen, son of Allentown founder William Allen, is one of the oldest houses in Allentown; from 1867 to 1905, it served as the home of Muhlenberg College The 24-story PPL Building in Center City Allentown, the city's tallest building PPL Center ...