The Hidden History of Chester County: Lost Tales from the Delaware and Brandywine Valleys

Eighty-nine years before Rosa Parks's famous 1955 bus ride, Mary Miles refused to move to the "blacks-only" section of an Oxford-bound train. In 1874, West Chester prosecutors used photographic evidence for the first time to convict and ultimately hang a local murderer. Several years later, the hills of Westtown became the testing grounds for the Flexible Flyer, America's original steerable sled. These are among the extraordinary stories too often lost to Chester Country's history. From the...