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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--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