Chester, Pennsylvania

Everything Chester is known for

1 song mention this city 19 artists from here

Music in Chester

Songs About Chester

Haley’s Comet
Dave Alvin
6%
""Do you know who I am?" said Bill Haley"

Artists From Chester

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Pale Divine
metal Pop: 32
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Jim Beard
jazz Pop: 31
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Polterchrist
metal Pop: 21
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Massaro
electronic Pop: 20
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Cryptic Warning
metal Pop: 16
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Midnights in October
metal Pop: 8
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Black Cherry Soda
rock Pop: 1
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Black Rain Falling
metal Pop: 1
C
Courtney Cox
pop Pop: 1
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Distant Dominion
metal Pop: 1
E
Execution by Intoxication
metal Pop: 1
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Gypsy Wisdom
folk Pop: 1
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Jeannette Thurber
classical Pop: 1
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Jeremy Lloyd
other Pop: 1
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John Burroughs
folk Pop: 1
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Lawrence Gushee
classical Pop: 1
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Mike Boyce
rock Pop: 1
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Reign of the Fallen
metal Pop: 1
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Rob Dunleavy
folk Pop: 1

Rivers & Roads in Song near Chester

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Chester.

Interstate 95 13 songs New Jersey Turnpike 4 songs

History of Chester

Delaware's Circular Border RoadyGoat

1681

Delaware has the only circular state boundary in the United States, and it exists because of a jurisdictional accident from the 1680s. When King Charles II granted William Penn the land that became Pennsylvania in 1681, he carved out an exception: the lands within a twelve-mile radius of New Castle, Delaware, which already belonged to the Duke of York. The Duke had taken them from the Dutch. In 1682, the Duke transferred those same lands to Penn anyway, but as a separate entity, not part of Pennsylvania. That quirk eventually made Delaware its own colony and its own state. In 1750, a commission fixed the center of the circle at the cupola of the New Castle Courthouse, built in 1732 and one of the oldest courthouses in America. The circle creates bizarre consequences. Its arc extends into the Delaware River past the low-tide mark on New Jersey's shore, giving Delaware sovereignty over water that would otherwise belong to New Jersey. This has caused Supreme Court cases in 1907, 1934, 1935, and as recently as 2008 over a proposed liquefied natural gas terminal. The circle also intersects the Pennsylvania border in a way that creates a small wedge of land called the Delaware Wedge whose ownership was disputed for centuries. An entire state's existence traces back to a twelve-mile circle drawn around a courthouse.

4.0 mi away

The Mütter Museum RoadyGoat

1858

At 19 South 22nd Street in Philadelphia, inside the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the Mütter Museum keeps a collection of medical oddities and anatomical specimens — over 37,000 of them, with roughly a tenth on display. Its stars include the Soap Lady, a 19th-century woman whose body naturally turned to a soap-like substance called adipocere; the Hyrtl Skull Collection of 139 human skulls assembled by Viennese anatomist Josef Hyrtl; and a set of microscope slides of Albert Einstein's brain. (Contrary to the popular line, the museum holds thin tissue slides of Einstein's brain, not the whole organ.) Towering over the main gallery is the Mütter American Giant, at 7 feet 6 inches the tallest human skeleton on exhibit in North America.

11.9 mi away

The Rocky Steps RoadyGoat

1976

The seventy-two stone steps on the east face of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, at 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, are the 'Rocky Steps' Sylvester Stallone sprinted up in the 1976 film, fists raised at the top. Tourists run them daily. The companion bronze 'Rocky' statue, commissioned by Stallone and made by sculptor A. Thomas Schomberg, first appeared at the top of the steps in 1982 for 'Rocky III.' The city argued it was a movie prop, not art, and exiled it to the Spectrum arena; it returned to a pedestal near the foot of the steps in 2006. (Note: in 2026 the statue was moved indoors for the museum's 'Rising Up: Rocky and the Making of Monuments' exhibition, so its exact spot can shift, but the steps themselves never move.) Painted footprints once marked the top.

12.2 mi away

Independence Hall

1732

Where the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution were debated and signed.

12.9 mi away

Caesar Rodney Statue - Rodney Square

1776

Caesar Rodney rode 80 miles through a thunderstorm to cast Delaware's tie-breaking vote for independence on July 2, 1776.

12.4 mi away

Eastern State Penitentiary

1829

Revolutionary prison that pioneered solitary confinement as a reform concept, once the most expensive building in America.

12.7 mi away

Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier

The Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier, also known as the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the American Revolution, is a war memorial located within Washington Square in Philadelphia, Pennsyl

Wikipedia → · 12.7 mi away

Washington Square (Philadelphia)

Washington Square, originally designated in 1682 as Southeast Square, is a 6.4 acres (2.6 ha) open-space park in Center City, Philadelphia, The southeast quadrant and one of the five original planned

Wikipedia → · 12.7 mi away

Jewelers' Row, Philadelphia

Jewelers' Row, located in the Center City section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, is composed of more than 300 retailers, wholesalers, and craftsmen located on Sansom Street between Seve

Wikipedia → · 12.8 mi away

Things to Do in Chester

historical 12.7 mi away
Eastern State Penitentiary

Al Capone's cell. America's most haunted prison now a crumbling gothic ruin.

Everything Near Chester

260 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

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