Editing West Chester, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
{{Main|History of West Chester, Pennsylvania}}
The area was originally known as '''Turk's Head''', named after the [[inn]] of the same name located in what is now the center of the borough.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thebrandywine.com/WestChester/index.html |title=West Chester, Pennsylvania |publisher=Thebrandywine.com |date=July 26, 2001 |access-date=August 12, 2012}}</ref>{{efn|At 1 N. High st. A historical marker stands there today}} West Chester has been the seat of government in Chester County since 1786 when the seat was moved from nearby [[Chester, Pennsylvania|Chester]] in what is now [[Delaware County, Pennsylvania|Delaware County]]. The borough was incorporated in 1799.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wcjim.com/history.htm |title=West Chester Pennsylvania Local History | first= Jim | last= Jones <!-- not that one --> |access-date=2009-12-24 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091208022346/http://wcjim.com/history.htm |archive-date=2009-12-08 }}</ref>

In the heart of town is its courthouse, a classical revival building designed in the 1840s by [[Thomas U. Walter]], one of the architects for the [[United States Capitol|Capitol]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dsf.chesco.org/chesco/cwp/view.asp?a=1492&q=617914 |title= Courthouse History |publisher=Chester County Courthouse|date=January 19, 2011 |access-date=August 12, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205235527/http://dsf.chesco.org/chesco/cwp/view.asp?A=1492&Q=617914 |archive-date=February 5, 2012 }}</ref> In the 18th century West Chester was a center of clockmaking. Irish revolutionary [[Theobald Wolfe Tone]] briefly lived in West Chester during his exile.{{citation needed|date=November 2022}} In the late 19th century the Hoopes, Bro. and Darlington company became a major wheelworks, first for wagons and later automobiles.<ref>{{cite book|title=West Chester, past and present: centennial souvenir with celebration proceedings|year=1899|publisher=Daily Local News, West Chester, PA|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_2UsVAAAAYAAJ/page/n130 125]|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_2UsVAAAAYAAJ}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Keeping the wheels turning in West Chester|url=http://www.dailylocal.com/articles/2008/03/27/past%20stories/19955280.txt|access-date=February 14, 2012|work=Daily Local News|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130723142954/http://www.dailylocal.com/articles/2008/03/27/past%20stories/19955280.txt|archive-date=July 23, 2013}}</ref> In the early 20th century, an important industry was the Sharples cream separator company.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dairyantiques.com/Cream_Separators_2.html |title=Cream Separators Page 2 |publisher=Dairyantiques.com |access-date=August 12, 2012 |archive-date=October 4, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004035100/http://dairyantiques.com/Cream_Separators_2.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> In the late 20th century, [[Commodore International]], one of the pioneers of home computers, giving its headquarters as West Chester, was located approximately a mile northeast of the borough.{{Citation needed|date=January 2017}}

The [[West Chester Downtown Historic District]] was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1985. Other listed buildings are the [[Bank of Chester County]], [[Buckwalter Building]], [[Butler House (West Chester, Pennsylvania)|Butler House]], [[Chester County Courthouse (Pennsylvania)|Chester County Courthouse]], [[William Everhart Buildings]], [[Farmers and Mechanics Building]], [[First Presbyterian Church of West Chester]], [[New Century Clubhouse]], [[Joseph Rothrock House]], [[Sharples Homestead]], [[Sharples Separator Works]], [[Warner Theater (West Chester, Pennsylvania)|Warner Theater]], [[West Chester Boarding School for Boys]], and components of [[West Chester State College Quadrangle Historic District]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>