The Chester County Transportation Museum, housed in the former Seaboard Railroad freight depot, features a railroad track plus a collection of classic automobiles and bicycles, a horse-drawn buggy, model railroads, and a wealth of transportation artifacts from a variety of eras.
Whether your idea of culture envisions a Broadway play, masterful art, historic events, or eclectic music, Chester County has it all.
Transportation Evolution
Museums + Libraries
A Wide Selection of Museums Less Than One Hour Away
Performing Arts
Our performing arts venues range from our devoted Chester Little Theatre to Charlotte’s Opera Carolina and Blumenthal Performing Arts Center which showcases annual Broadway plays and world-renowned symphonies and musicians. In Greenville, SC, you can frequent the Peace Center, as well as the Koger Center for the Arts at USC in Columbia. Columbia is also home to the Columbia City Ballet and the South Carolina Philharmonic Orchestra.
Festivals
Tap your toes at our county’s longest running street celebration, the Flopeye Fish Festival, which lures thousands to Great Falls. Additional festivals dot the calendar including Chester’s annual HILLarity and Hog on the Hill festivals, our Fort Lawn 4th of July Celebration, plus the annual Come See Me Festival in nearby Rock Hill.
