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Community Profile
Network, Inc. & Copyright © 1998
Community Profile Network, Inc. This Site is a Cyberworks Media Group Production |
The
Chester County Chamber of Commerce is a non-profit organization
made up of community leaders dedicated to the economic well-being
of its members. The businesses and organizations showcased here
are the very best providers of goods and services available in
Chester County. As you turn these pages, you will be guided through
our community. Included is a complete list of our members, and
you can count on the quality of their goods and services.
Welcome
to Chester County!
The
original inhabitants of Chester County were the Catawba and
the Cherokee nations. White traders entered the area in the
early 1700s, and the first settlers came in the 1750s, largely
in the Rocky Creek and Fishing Creek areas. 
Early
settlers were part of the great Scots-Irish immigration south
from Pennsylvania on the Great Wagon Road. Others came up from
the port of Charleston. The western part of the county was settled
for the most part by immigrants from Virginia, most of English
extraction. 
The
county began to change from a strictly agrarian economy to a
manufacturing economy with the founding of the Chester Manufacturing
Company in 1888 and the Catawba Manufacturing Company in 1892.
Both of these textile mills later became part of the Springs
Industries textile organization. Later mills were built in Great
Falls and Lando. For almost a century, the county was heavily
dependent on textiles as the base of the economy. During the
past 15 years, local industries have become much more diversified.