When Winter Buried Chester County: The Blizzard of 1958

When Winter Buried Chester County: The Blizzard of 1958

By the evening of March 19, 1958, the snow had already climbed past the windowsills. Across Chester County, front doors opened onto walls of wet white. Streets disappeared beneath drifts that reached the height of first-floor steps. On Lancaster Pike, traffic slowed to a crawl and then stopped altogether as the storm thickened into a steady roar of wind and falling snow. Somewhere in the dark, a resident stepped outside with a yardstick and push…