Beaver Falls
Beaver Falls

Author: Kenneth Britten

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9780738523828

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With an industrial foundation laid down more than 200 years ago, Beaver Falls quickly secured a role in history as one of the most well-established manufacturing towns in western Pennsylvania. Further recognition as a "Pittsburgh in miniature" soon followed as the town's commercial base grew and prospered during the halcyon days of the nineteenth century. Early residents strove to build the town into a self-supporting community committed to family values, and Beaver Falls continued to grow and thrive after the mills and factories gave way to the social experiments of the Harmony Society and the founding of Geneva College. Beaver Falls: Gem of Beaver County devotes a chapter to local football legend Joe Namath's first season of greatness, complete with play-by-play details of the exciting Friday night high school games. "Broadway Joe's" early team picture is here, along with dozens more rare and compelling, never-before-published images. Readers will also find telling narratives of the Big Snow of 1950 and the Great Race of 1908, with more than 100 vintage photographs and maps detailing the gripping stories and unique memories chronicled here.

History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania; and Its Centennial Celebration
History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania; and Its Centennial Celebration

Author: Joseph Henderson Bausman

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9781230203041

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX No. X A HUMAN DOCUMENT Being Some Account Of The Journal Of Rev. Robert Dil Worth, D.D., Pastor Of The Church Of Little Beaver, Beaver County, Pennsylvania Robert Dilworth, the fifth principal of Greersburg Academy and later pastor of several churches in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, was one of the sturdy, faithful pioneer educators and ministers who did yeoman service for God and men throughout eastern Ohio, western Pennsylvania, and what is now West Virginia. His father, George Dilworth, was born in Little Britain township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, about the year 1765, and, while a child, moved with his father to a settlement near Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, where Robert, the subject of this sketch, the oldest of eight children, was born, November 19, 1790. George Dilworth, in the spring of 1796, removed to Beaver County, and settled in the forest near Greersburg, now Darlington. With his family he camped out in the woods until he had built a small cabin, which they made haste to occupy even before it was roofed over. Several other families besides Dilworth's had come into this neighborhood at the same time, all having previously resided within the bounds of the Presbyterian Church at Mount Pleasant in Westmoreland County. They therefore soon organized a church in their new location and called it after the old home church, Mount Pleasant. This was in 1797. 1798. or 1799. certainly not earlier than the first date named, nor later than the last. Of this church George Dilworth was a member from its beginning, and under its care, Robert, of whom we write, grew to young manhood, working on his father's farm and receiving such educational advantages as the neighborhood afforded. He was doubtless a student in the...