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Coatesville is a city in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 13,350 at the 2020 census. [3] Coatesville is approximately 39 miles west of Philadelphia. It developed along the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike beginning in the late 18th century. It spans U.S. Route 30, the "Main Line" highway that runs west of ...
Roger Olin Grimsby (September 23, 1928 – June 23, 1995) was an American journalist, television news anchor and actor.Grimsby, who for eighteen years was seen on ABC's flagship station WABC in New York City, is known as one of the pioneers of local television broadcast news.
Coatesville Historic District is a national historic district located in Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 457 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of the city of Coatesville. The buildings date from the mid-18th century to 1937, with most built between 1850 and ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in northern Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. Northern Chester County is defined for this list as being the municipalities north of the Philadelphia Main Line and west of a line extending from Phoenixville to Exton. The ...
Between 1900 and 1910, the town of Coatesville became home to increasing numbers of African Americans and foreign-born whites. [2] The European immigrants who settled in Coatesville were unable to live in residential areas inhabited by US-born whites, and begrudgingly resorted to living near the town's African American populations. [3]
Anderson was captain of a company of Chester County men who served in the French and Indian War. At the time of the Revolution, Anderson was serving on Anthony Wayne's first Chester County Committee of Safety. The Assembly sent a Captain's Commission to him, and, although an older man, being 55 at the time, he accepted it, called together his ...
In 1942, the Coatesville city council had appealed for the construction of separate housing developments for black and white workers, and most federal housing projects were segregated at the time. Lincoln Highway Defense Housing (later Brandywine Homes) was another Coatesville federal housing project, built at the same time as Carver Court but ...
By February, one death had been reported as a result of the arsons. Irene Kempest, an 83-year-old widow and Nazi war camp survivor, [5] [6] was killed due to smoke inhalation when her Strode Avenue home in Coatesville was set ablaze on December 7, 2008, at about 12:20 a.m. Emergency responders searching the building found Kempest was unconscious upstairs and removed her from the house, but she ...