West Chester
a borough and county-seat of Chester co., Pa.; near the Brandywine river, and on the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore, and the Pennsylvania railroads; 27 miles W. of Philadelphia. Here are a court house, State Normal School, Darlington Female Seminary, Villa Marie Convent, county hospital, public library, waterworks, street railroads, electric lights, National and private banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. The borough has a print establishment, cold-storage works, creamery, and manufactures wheels, carriages, hosiery, toys, artificial ice, um- WESTERN AUSTRALIA brellas, etc. Pop. (1910) 11,767; (1920) 11,717.