Military Service
1778 During the Revolutionary War, General Lachlan McIntosh officially moved his Western Department headquarters from Fort Pitt to the newly built Fort McIntosh.
1780 - Famous frontiersman Captain Samuel Brady rescued Jenny Stupes from the Indians.
1784 - The "First American Regiment took up permanent quarters in Fort Mclntosh, and it was the forerunner of the Third Infantry Regiment that today serves as the Presidential Honor Guard.
November 1792 - General Anthony Wayne established Legion Ville near the former Logs Town site to begin training his troops for war against the Indians.
1812/1814 - Approximately 703 Beaver County officers and men joined the militia to fight in the War of 1812.
April 12, 1861 The Civil War began with the attack on Fort Sumter. Eleven of the 270 regiments which the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania sent to the battlefields of the Civil War had one or more companies recruited in Beaver County.
July 2, 1863 Colonel Richard P. Roberts of Beaver was killed leading his 140th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry during the battle of Gettysburg.
April 8, 1865 Sergeant Joseph E. McCabe, a Beaver County native and one of General Sheridan's most famous scouts located the supply train for General Lee's starving Confederate army, forcing Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House.
July 21, 1898 Company B of the 10th Regiment Pennsylvania National Guard stationed at New Brighton arrived in the Philippines to participate in the Spanish-American War.
1916 Rochester native and Marine Corps Colonel Joseph Pendleton established Camp Pendleton in southern California.
July 16, 1917 During WWI, the 5th Engineers were the first troops from the county to arrive in France.
October 1, 1918 Beaver Falls native Joseph H. Thompson, wounded three times and gassed by the Germans, earned the Congressional Medal of Honor.
May 28, 1919 - Light Field Artillery Regiment whom France awarded the Croix de Guerre for bravery were honored in Beaver. Seventeen Beaver County men of the 323
Ca. 1941 - The Curtiss Wright factory in Beaver was producing airplane propellers for the war effort. The factory was listed as the #10 target on the Nazi "hit list.
1941 - The United States Army Air Force built a secret aviation gasoline storage facility disguised as a farm in Potter Township on Mowry Road.
1942 - American Bridge Company in Ambridge began producing LST's for the navy using a welding versus rivet technique.
1943 Jones & Laughlin Steel Aliquippa Works and Ingram-Richardson Manufacturing Company were awarded the "Army and Navy Award for Excellence in Production."
August 9, 1944 Aliquippa native and OSS operative, George Vujnovich put into operation his successful plan to rescue nearly 500 downed airmen hiding in Yugoslavia from the Germans.
1945 - WWII ended with the Japanese surrender. Beaver County suffered 479 casualties with 296 of them killed in action.
July 1953 - The Korean War ended. Beaver County had 45 men killed in action.
1973 A cease fire was agreed upon which effectively ended the United States involvement in Vietnam. Beaver County lost 73 of her sons in that war.
1988 Aliquippa's Gustav Avratokos was awarded
the U.S. Intelligence Medal of Merit for Operation
Cyclone, the largest operation in CIA history.
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Location. 40° 41.88′ N, 80° 17.839′ W. Marker is in Beaver, Pennsylvania, in Beaver County. It is on East End Avenue, on the right when traveling north. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Beaver PA 15009, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in Greater Pittsburgh. It is also in the American Northeast, in the Mid-Atlantic, and in the Ohio River Valley. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy and also one of the original Thirteen Colonies.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Famous Athletes (here, next to this marker); African Americans (here, next to this marker); Women in Beaver County (here, next to this marker); Labor Movement and Wagner Act (a few steps from this marker); Immigration and Migration Patterns (a few steps from this marker); Growth And Decline 1946-1985
Credits. This page was last revised on July 15, 2021. It was originally submitted on July 11, 2021, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. This page has been viewed 364 times since then and 19 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on July 11, 2021, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.
