CHESTER, a city of South Carolina, U.S.A., in the foot-hills of the Blue Ridge mountains, 65m. N.W. of Columbia; the county seat of Chester county. It is on Federal highway 21, and is served by the Carolina and North-western, the Lancaster and Chester, the Seaboard Air Line, and the Southern railways. The population in 1920 was 5,557, of whom 2,153 were negroes, and was 5,528 in 1930 by Federal census. Chester is advantageously situated be tween the hydro-electric developments of the Broad and the Catawba rivers. It manufactures cotton yarn and cloth, cotton oil, overalls, machinery, implements, and various other articles, and has granite monument works. It was settled about 1732, was in corporated as a town in 1849 and as a city in 1893.