Editing Chester, Virginia (section)

==History==
[[File:Chester, Virginia Station on the Seaboard Air Line 1914.jpg|thumb|left|Chester, Virginia station on the Seaboard Air Line, 1914]]

Chester's original "downtown" was a stop which was an intersection of the [[Richmond and Petersburg Railroad]], running north to south, and the [[Clover Hill Railroad]], which became the [[Brighthope Railway]], then the [[Farmville and Powhatan Railroad]]. In 1900, when the Richmond and Petersburg merged with the [[Atlantic Coast Line Railroad|Atlantic Coast Line]], that new railroad intersected the same east west railroad which became the [[Tidewater and Western Railroad]] in 1905.<ref>{{cite web|title=Moving Forward…The Comprehensive Plan For Chesterfield County,CHAPTER 8: HISTORICAL & CULTURAL RESOURCES |url=http://www.chesterfield.gov/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=8589944296 |publisher=[[Chesterfield, Virginia]] |accessdate=19 April 2016 |archivedate=2016-04-13 |page=55 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160413042643/http://www.chesterfield.gov/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=8589944296 }}</ref> 
 
The [[Seaboard Air Line]] also passed through in 1900 running north to south which to day is replaced with [[Chester Linear Park, (Chester, Virginia)|Chester Linear Park]]. Chester today is a [[Commuter town|bedroom community]] along [[Virginia State Route 10|State Route 10]]. Recent commercial development in Chester has emerged at the sprawling intersection of SR 10 and [[U.S. Route 1 in Virginia|U.S. Route 1]] ([[Jefferson Davis Highway]]) near the on-ramp to [[Interstate 95 in Virginia|Interstate 95]].

In April, 1781, during the [[American Revolution]], the Osborne's Landing area of Chester was the site of the [[Action at Osborne's]] in which General [[Benedict Arnold]] destroyed much of Virginia's navy.

In May, 1864, the Chester Station was the scene of the [[Battle of Chester Station]] during the [[Bermuda Hundred Campaign]] of the [[American Civil War]]. The area was damaged by [[Hurricane Isabel]] in 2003.