Delaware County didn’t officially exist during the Revolutionary War. At the time, much of what is now Delco was still part of Chester County.
But the land that would become Delaware County was far from a bystander in America’s fight for independence.
From a courthouse bell in Chester to battle smoke in Chadds Ford, sunken spikes in the Delaware River, and wounded soldiers sheltered in local meetinghouses, Delco’s Revolutionary War story is scattered across places many residents still pass today…