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265 New Articles Added April 2006
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County Christmas Festivities Included
Nailing School Doors
Early Settlers Scoffed at
Celebrating Christmas
Oil Furnaces to Heat Homes
Growing Up in North Sewickley Township
Ground Breaking For The Canal
July 26, 1831
Ambridge Italian Women's Club
Beaver Political Pot--
Confident Dem.
Staking Their Money on Sammy - Religion and Politics.
The Zundel Family of Old Economy
The Klan Was Here They Claim
Beaver County Soldiers and Sailors Monuments
Trolly Ordinance, Boro of Glasgow
Ing-Rich Was Largest of its Kind
In Beaver County
A Story of Two Violins
Area Poet Finds Success at End
of Troubled Path
My Own Home Town:
A Dream
Dean of City's Business Leaders--Berkman
The Geneva Alumnus--July, 1927
The 1927 Commencement
Some Early History of Beaver County
Highways and Cars
Country Club Founded by Wm. McCool
Bar Agreement
Beaver County in Civil War
Beaver Valley Yacht Club Inc.
1949-1988
Raymond O. Robertson
RETIREMENT DINNER BY J. RICHARD FRUTH, JUNE 1, 1968
Rochester History
January 20,1972 - The News Tribune
Students Names Taken From Minute Book
Of Greesburgh Academy
A Creative Task to Perform and to Create
Something New There Must be Planning
By Clifton E. Rodgers
Planning Consultant to the Beaver County Planning Commission
Three Men In Flames
GAS EXPLOSION AND FIRE AT FREEDOM
A Christmas Story
Junction Park and Morado
Christ Lutheran Church
Camp Runyan-Camp Eddie Thompson-
Pine Valley Youth Camp
The Manufacture of Brick
Parks Mansion
Beaver County's Electrical Genius
The Beaver Who Ate Steel
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-A Story
Beaver County Voters Statistica 1928
The Forerunner of the Pennsylvania
Association of Housing Authority
Frisco Hard to Describe
The Parable of the Grade School Teacher
Old Fashioned Household Hints
To the Voters of New Brighton
Pioneer Cemetaries of Beaver County
The James B. Clow Farmhouse
Selections From Bausman's History
The Telelphone in Beaver County
Originated August 1879
First Farm Society of Beaver County
The History Of The
New Salem Presbyterian Church
Tribune News Boys Christmas
Paff Furniture Company
Rochester
: A Brief Overview
The Memories of Georgetown
American Bridge: 5,000th Barge
More and Better Gas--Beaver Falls
Much Speeding Done
In Beaver Valley
Birthday Ball in Valley to be Gala Event
Early History of Brewer School and Beaver County School System
Master Builders Adopt a New Wage Scale for Crafts: 1922
Only Earthquake on Record Here
Milk Control Board
The Nasty Beaver River
WBVP Radio Talk Show 1951
Liberty Bread
First Fatal Air Crash in Beaver County
Ambridge Merchantile Restaurants--1927
Benson's Spring Openings
Buffalo Bill Arrested
Captain Blazier Exonerated
Conway Airport Dedicated
:
May 1, 1914
Cora Blackledge-First Probation Officer
Western Pennsylvania's Fireman's
Association Convention--"Tent City"
Josephtown Post Office
Leaf House Marriage--1861
Pothole Problems - 1903
Quarantine--Doctor Mercer Makes Defense
Scrubbing Street Cars
St. Stanislaus Church, Ambridge
Local State Parks Have Historical Ties
The Stephen Stone House
Journal of John Mathews:
One of the Surveyors of the Northwest Territory
River: No Obstacle to Early Surveyors
Haymaking and Harvest Time In Old Economy
Genealogy of a Beaver County Farm:Neel Farm
Christmas Reflections
The Cradle Of the Christmas Tree
Traditional Italian Christmas
Orchards of Old Economy, Penna.
Vicary House and Legends
Oil: Early Appearance in the County
The River Gains New Life
--Towboats
Sternwheeler: John C. Fremont
Hookstown:
Autumn - Time of Activity and Action
Husking Bee and Indian Problems
The Navy "E"
Flashbacks to Old Economy and the Harmony Society - 1912
Historical Insight into County Recreation:Fishing
Beaver County--Solid as a Rock
"Crossing The River": Bridges
Beaver County's Towpath Canals Today
Scenic Railway to Roll Through County
I Remember Christmas
The Story of Fombell
Old Economy in 1853
Aliquippa's Beginnings
History of Early Baden
A Serious Train Accident
French Fort?
Geneva "G"
The Kobuta Story
Amusement Rides
What's In a Name?: Borough Township
General Daniel Brodhead
:
PATRIOT IN WAR, CIVIL SERVANT IN PEACE
County's Early Tract Names
Arnold McMahon Remembered
Murdockville Through the Years
Thanksgiving Day--A Time to Reflect
Bill Bowan - Ambridge Expert - Photographer Succumbs
Four Mile United Presbyterian Church
Federal Government Built Post Office at Midland
Romancing the Boundary Stone
:
1785 HISTORICAL BOUNDARY MARKER
Meet The Beavers
Old Ledger Details Frontier Shopping
Legal Matters
Monaca:
The Daily Star April 29, 1896
Herbal Gardens: Beautiful and Beneficial
The Herb Garden at Old Economy Village
Smith's Ferry Baseball Team
Called Homewood or Racine, It's the Home of Buttermilk Falls
A Short History of Freedom--1896
Old Cemetaries
Indians at Industry, Pa
The Rescue of Jenny Stoopes
St. Patrick's Day Incident at Legionville
Wetlands in Beaver County
Ghosts
A Brief Account of Massy Harbison'sEncounter with the Indians
The Merrick Art Gallery-A Brief History
A Narrative of Oil Welling
Down Along the Raccoon: White's Mill
Autos Were Scarce
Child's Pipe Shop
Ghosts Again!
Joseph M. Jonas 1928 - 1994
The Panoramic Maps of Beaver County
Story of a River: Chart of Beaver River
Monaca Landmark: Phillipsburgh School
$105.83 For Beaver County
The Girl Scouts Of Baden
The Bridge That Never Was
Buttermilk Pike
An Interview With Mrs. Eugene (Marie) Wise
Haunts
Noss: New Brighton's Prominent Personality
North Sewickley's Orphan School
P.&L.E. Accident
Hookstown and the Civil War
John Harbison Takes Bees To California
The Last of the Ghosts
Dr. Steinfeld's Cures: Magnetic Salve
Van Buren vs the Rails
The Devil's Due: Judge Reddick's Grave
Dougherty Cemetary
The Falls of the Beaver River
Father Rapp of the Harmony Society
Fred Dunlap
"The Blue Bridge": Rochester and Monaca Bridge
The Great Shoot-Out
News from the Rochester Star, April 29,1896
Beaver County's Early Iron Industry
1827 Civil War Letter from Cincinnati
The Old Erie and Pittsburgh Canal
More News From The Rochester Star
:
APRIL 29, 1896
Crogan Trades For 200,000 Acres Of Land
Look at the Shape We Are In: Our Geography
Rochester Tumbler Works Destroyed
The Story of Koppel
African-American History Of Beaver County
Early Post Offices in Beaver County
History of the Telephone in Beaver County
Kipling's Impression Of The Beaver Valley
Legionville: Then and Now
Even More News From The Rochester Star
Oliver B. Shallenberger--Electrical Genius
The Standard Horse Nail Works Increasing the Capacity of Its Plant
Remembering Crow's Run
Beside the Beaver Vale--Geneva College
Lyceum Theater
McKee and Gibson: Earliest Settlers
More and More News From The Rochester Star
Beaver Valley Traction Company
Early History of Iron in Beaver County
The Captivity of Massy Harbison In Her Own Words
Rochester News: From Daily News 1883
The Case of the Vanshing Community
He Killed Twenty-Eight Copperheads
John Dempsey's Case
Mills of the Connoquenessing
Policeman Shot At Aliquippa
Steamboats Built in Beaver County
Leetsdale To Sewickley: Trolley and Bus
County Receipts Of 1834 Wouldn't Go Far Today
Union Beginnings in Aliquippa
Apprenticeship
Writing a Civil War Book in Beaver County
Abe Lincoln in Rochester
The Poe Brothers and Big Foot
The Second Baptist Church of Beaver Falls
Smiths Ferry
Senator Abner Lacock
The Research Center for Beaver County and Local History
Vicary House: Beaver County's History Center
Early History of Rochester
Patterson Heights
The Swearingen Conestoga Wagon
The Davis Ferry
Fisher Hotel at Frisco
Mario Ezzo--His Bread Tasted Sweet
The Porter Boys Of Co. H, 101st PA Veteran Volunteer Infantry
Beginning of Recreational Boating in Valley
George Washington in Beaver County
Memories Of Dr. Bausman
Chippewa Township
The Most Curious Page in American Musical History
Being Some Account of the Journal of Rev. Robert Dilworth, D.D.
Lincoln Highway
The Old Beaver Canal
Pump House To Water Tank
Beaver County's Rivers And Streams
Brodhead's Road
Cannel Coal: Curious Fossil Plants Found in Coal Formations
Commettsburg
Conway's Crows Run Valley
Where Is South Heights?
Ellwood Airport
Letter From Legionville
Boat Building in Midland
A Phenomenon
An Old School Document
White's Mill
Colorful Pennsylvania: Names from Nature
Fort McIntosh Treaty
Horace Greeley and the Beaver Manufacturing Co
Beaver County's Hills and Valleys
James Toy-Baseball Player
Phoenix Glass Works Fire
Two Institutions: Jail and Poorhouse
Patterson Township
Blast Furnaces Fired
Beaver Carriage
John Bever, Entrepreneur
Rudyard Kipling's Visit to Beaver County
"The Land Ordinance Of May 20,1785"
When Nitroglycerin Rocked Georgetown
Place Names In Beaver County
Woodlawn Football
Our Forefathers Had Smashing Good Times
Merger of Two Towns: Aliquippa
Beaver Falls' Red Brick School
Chinese Workers In Beaver Falls
County Hospitals
The Fort McIntosh Dig
Beaver County History Online
Legionville
Articles from the News Tribune
Beaver PA: The Ideal Home Town 1800-1900