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Excerpt from Directory of the Borough of West Chester, for 1857: Containing a Complete History of the Borough From Its First Settlement to the Present Time, the Names of All the Inhabitants, Alphabetically Arranged, Their Occupations, Places of Business, and Dwelling House; Also, a List of the Streets, Lanes, and Alley The County Town and seat of Justice of Chester County, Pennsylvania, is in Latitude 39 57' North, and Longitude 1 24' 57 East of Washington City, or 75 36' West from Greenwich, near London. The exact position of the Borough, or rather of the Court House, was ascertained in 1843, by E. W. Beans, then Principal of the Public School, in West Chester, and Walter Hibbard, Surveyor and Conveyancer, of the same place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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