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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Beaver County, Pennsylvania
Adjacent to Beaver County, Pennsylvania
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| Near Pine Street (Pennsylvania Route 168) 0.4 miles east of Main Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Early Methodist Episcopal Church circa 1832. Ground given for church use and free burial plot. Deeded in 1834 by Mathias Hook. Hookstown's founder and a Revolutionary soldier who is buried here.
Summer subscription school held here in 1859. — — Map (db m49699) HM |
| On Old Mill Creek Church Road 0.3 miles east of Pennsylvania Route 168, on the right when traveling west. |
| | The congregation was served by supply ministers from 1784 until the coming of George M. Scott on Sept 14, 1799 he served Mill Creek Church for 40 years and rests in this burial ground — — Map (db m122306) HM |
| On Midland Beaver Road (Pennsylvania Route 68) 0.1 miles east of Shippingport Bridge (Pennsylvania Route 168), on the right when traveling east. |
| | Established in 1859 by George Washington Cook. Operated by the Cook family until 1918. Then sold to the Flemings. Bought by Christy and Morrow in 1919. Known as Shippingport Ferry until (last trip April 1964), bridge built across Ohio River. — — Map (db m51427) HM |
| On Midland Beaver Road (Pennsylvania Route 68) 0.2 miles east of Shippingport Bridge (Pennsylvania Route 168), on the right when traveling east. |
| | Artifacts covering a span of 8000 to 9000 years were found here by members of the Amockwi Chapter 17 Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology in the 1960s and 1970s. This stratified site is located on a flood plain with periodic floods sealing habitats . . . — — Map (db m51601) HM |
| On Midland Avenue (Pennsylvania Route 68/168) at 9th Street, on the right when traveling west on Midland Avenue. |
| | In 1865 Neel School District was formed. Many years later in 1908 7th St in 1914 1st St and 1917 4th St schools were built. In 1926 Lincoln High School opened. In 2000 PA Cyber Charter School and 2006 Lincoln Park Performing Arts were created. — — Map (db m44178) HM |
| Near North Branch Road 0.3 miles north of North Broadhead Road when traveling south. |
| | Beaver Countys first highway constructed 1778 by General Lachlan McIntosh as a supply route from Fort Pitt to Fort McIntosh Colonel Daniel Broadhead succeeded to the command of the fort in 1779 and his name was associated with the road. — — Map (db m50887) HM |
| On Atlantic Avenue at 5th Street, on the right when traveling east on Atlantic Avenue. |
| | Founded 1832 by dissadent members of the Harmony Society of Economy. The house on this corner was the home of the society leader Count Maxmillian DeLeon and is believed to be the oldest house in Monaca. — — Map (db m45778) HM |
| On 5th Street 0 miles north of 6th Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Constructed in 1832 by separatists from the Harmony Society, under the leadership of Count Maximilian DeLeon, organized as New Philadephia Society. 1840-First School Built. 1850-First Pipe Organ in Beaver County. — — Map (db m45780) HM |
| On 4th Street 0 miles north of Pennsylvania Avenue (Pennsylvania Route 18), on the right when traveling north. |
| | Endowed by A Louis Thiel and founded in 1866 as Thiel Hall by Reverend William A. Passavant. Chartered in 1870 as Thiel College of the Evangelical Lutheran Church with Reverend Henry W. Roth as first president. Moved to Greenville, Pennsylvania in . . . — — Map (db m45783) HM |
| On Fourth Avenue at Pennsylvania Avenue (Pennsylvania Route 18), on the right when traveling south on Fourth Avenue. |
| | Founded 1848 by Dr. Edward Acker. Used hydrotherapy or water to heal. First hospital in Beaver County. Town's first Post Office, 1856.
Phillipsburg soldiers orphans school founded 1866 by Rev. William Taylor. Destroyed by fire 1876. — — Map (db m50181) HM |
| On 65th Infantry Division Memorial Highway (Pennsylvania Route 65/18) 0 miles south of 14th Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | A 19th century industrialist, philanthropist, Civil War Veteran and founder of Merrick Art Gallery in New Brighton in 1880. Built in 1847 for his parents, Silas and Fanny Miner Merrick and family. — — Map (db m50282) HM |
| On 3rd Avenue (Pennsylvania Route 65) at 12th Street, on the right when traveling north on 3rd Avenue. |
| | Sesquicentennial (1850-2000). Oldest continuously used church in New Brighton. Outstanding example of English Small Gothic Architecture in America. The church has a collection of superb stained glass windows by Tiffany. — — Map (db m132) HM |
| On 2nd Avenue (Pennsylvania Route 65) at 12th Street, on the right when traveling north on 2nd Avenue. |
| | Many church leaders avoided sermons on anti-slavery, fearing the reprisal of their members. New Brighton First Presbyterian Church was the first to welcome abolitionists as guest speakers, a famous guest was Frederick Douglass, a freed slave and . . . — — Map (db m156433) HM |
| On Valley Avenue at 19th Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Valley Avenue. |
| | Incorporated 1859 Daugherty / Pulaski Twps non-profit - non-denominational. Here rest the founding fathers, noted leaders, family loved ones, veterans serving from the Revolutionary to the present. A Civil War Soldiers Monument "Where Past and . . . — — Map (db m50288) HM |
| Near 11th Street 0.1 miles east of 3rd Avenue (Pennsylvania Route 18/65). |
| | Founded and endowed by Edward Dempster Merrick Industrialist and Philanthropist
Established in 1880 as a teaching and exhibiting museum for increased understanding of fine art — — Map (db m45791) HM |
| On Sunflower Road (Pennsylvania Route 68) 0.6 miles west of Deer Lane, on the right when traveling west. |
| | In 1890 the Presbytery of Allegheny approved the petition of Messrs. Charles J. Bonzo and Leander McCauley to organize a church at this site. A building was erected at a cost of $1,270. Services were held regularly until terminated by Presbytery in . . . — — Map (db m50286) HM |
| Near 3rd Avenue (Pennsylvania Route 18/65) at Mulberry Street. |
| | Beaver Division built 1831-1834. Two locks at Rochester, five in New Brighton and two at Eastvale overcame the falls of the Beaver River. The canal was extended to Erie in 1834. Canal traffic ceased in 1871. Few remains are visible today. — — Map (db m45790) HM |
| On 3rd Avenue (Pennsylvania Route 65/18) 0 miles south of 16th Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Townsend was founder of an early iron business in county. Being of Quaker stock, he was an active abolishonist. His home built in 1835, was an important stop on the underground railroad before and during the war between the states. — — Map (db m50283) HM |
| On 2nd Avenue (Pennsylvania Route 65) at 13th Street, on the right when traveling south on 2nd Avenue. |
| | Dr. David Stanton, son-in-law of Robert Townsend. A Quaker and an abolitionist. Secretly took care of the sick fugitives' needs. He was a surgeon in the Civil War and later the PA auditor general. His cousin, Edwin Stanton, was Sec. of War under . . . — — Map (db m156455) HM |
| Near 1st Avenue at 8th Street. |
| | David Townsend, a Quaker abolitionist,
owned a flour mill along the Beaver
River near this site. Called the
"Father of New Brighton", he planned
the town (nc 1838) and its streets.
He donated the land for Townsend
Park. As a secret conductor, . . . — — Map (db m156573) HM |
| On 11th Street at 5th Avenue on 11th Street. |
| | This home, built in 1849, once was
the inn and livery of Presbyterian
abolitionist James Edgar. it was
connected by tunnel to the Erie-
Pittsburgh railroad depot which
is now the Merrick Art Gallery. At
this stop, fugitives, often dressed . . . — — Map (db m156574) HM |
| | Founded in 1837 as an outgrowth of St. John A.M.E. Bridgewater
First church of denomination between Pittsburgh and Cleveland
Original building built on 3rd Ave. Used until 1878. Chartered in 1880. Current church building erected in 1894. — — Map (db m98012) HM |
| On 3rd Avenue (Pennsylvania Route 65) south of 12th Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Home of Grace Greenwood (Sara J. Clarke Lippincott, 1823-1904), pioneer woman correspondent, poetess, and authoress. While living here during the mid-19th Century, she wrote many of her popular juvenile stories. — — Map (db m134) HM |
| On Pennsylvania Route 989 1.1 miles north of Big Knob Road (Pennsylvania Route 1028), on the left when traveling north. |
| | Saint Peter's Lutheran Church was organized April 9, 1849. Services were held regularly until 1973, when the congregation merged with Trinity Lutheran Church of Freedom to become Prince of Peace Lutheran Church. — — Map (db m51796) HM |
| On Chapel Drive at Ann Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Chapel Drive. |
| | Circa 1830 significant example of Greek Revival architecture. Served as an Underground Railway station prior to the Civil War.
Listed on National Register of Historic Places by United States Department of Interior in 1989. — — Map (db m49415) HM |
| On Chapel Drive at Terrace Drive, on the right when traveling north on Chapel Drive. |
| | This is the oldest Baptist Church in Beaver County, organized November 14, 1801. Elder Henry Spear, a Baptist preacher, delivered the first sermon in the log cabin home of brother Ezekiel Jones and his wife Hannah. Twenty-one pioneer folk attended. — — Map (db m49414) HM |
| On Salem Church Road (Pennsylvania Route 168) 0.1 miles south of Lisbon Road, on the right when traveling north. |
| | October 25, 1796, Reverends John McMillan & Thomas Marquis dispensed northwest of Ohio River to found church. 1797 services first held in tent then in log church nearby. Erected in 1850, the present building is their first church. — — Map (db m50882) HM |
| On Midland Road (Pennsylvania Route 68/168) at Smiths Ferry Road, on the right when traveling east on Midland Road. |
| | Oil boom town in 1860s-1870s. Oil shipped here on trains and river boats from wells in the Upper Dry Run and Island Run oilfields. Town had a hotel store post office and train station. All gone today. Rockport School remains. Neaby Glasgow had oil . . . — — Map (db m44179) HM |
| On Midland Road (Pennsylvania Route 68/168) 0.2 miles west of Calcutta Road, on the right when traveling east. |
| | No survey of the western lands of the United States could be made as required under the land ordinance of 1785 until the surveyors for Pennsylvania and Virginia set a marker on the north shore of the Ohio River. On August 20, 1785, that marker was . . . — — Map (db m44181) HM |
| On Water Street west of Harrison Street, on the left when traveling west. |
| | The great Ohio River - and the Beaver River that flows into it - played important roles in attracting settlers to the Rochester area. Two hundred years ago, the rivers here served as main transportation routes, sources for industrial water power and . . . — — Map (db m55923) HM |
| On Water Street west of Harrison Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | . . . — — Map (db m44885) HM |
| On Pennsylvania Route 68 0.4 miles south of Benvenue Road, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Benvenue Manor was built in 1816 by George Henry Mueller near the Old Venango Trail. Stone for the manor was quarried on the property. Saint Paul's Lutheran Church, Zelienople, was founded here. Also on the property is Sunrise Cottage, built in 1848. — — Map (db m50287) HM |
| On Pittsburgh Road at Allendale Road, on the right when traveling north on Pittsburgh Road. |
| | First Catholic cemetery in Beaver County. Land given by Edward Daugherty for Catholic burials upon the death of his brother 1801. Transferred to sponsor parish Saint Peter and Paul, Beaver 1832. Burial ground for parish priests, Father James Reid . . . — — Map (db m50285) HM |
| On Adams Street (Pennsylvania Route 68) at Harmony Avenue, on the right when traveling west on Adams Street. |
| | Founded in Rochester by Henry Clay Fry President of the Rochester Tumbler and National Glass Company. Hundreds of skilled workers produced world renowned glass including cut, tableware, ovenware, art, industrial and optical glass of the finest . . . — — Map (db m45786) HM |
| On Water Street west of Harrison Street, on the left when traveling west. |
| | In the 1880s, the heart of Rochester lay on the flat stretch of land along the Ohio River. The main road, Water Street, was a perfect location for businesses for many reasons. Proximity to the rivers and railroads meant heavy supplies could . . . — — Map (db m55906) HM |
| Near Delaware Avenue 0.1 miles north of West Madison Street (Pennsylvania Route 18). |
| | Home of Joseph H. Bausman D.D. 1854-1924 author of best known and most used history of Beaver County 2-volume Published 1904
Pastor of United Presbyterian and congregational churches Rochester 1882-1907
Professor English Literature Washington . . . — — Map (db m50284) HM |
| On YMCA Drive 0 miles east of Delaware Avenue (Pennsylvania Route 18/65), on the right when traveling west. |
| | Built by Beaver Valley Traction Company to increase trolley ridership. 2 roller coasters, carousel, diner theatre, dance hall, dark ride, and grandstands with a racetrack and ballfields. In 1929 an Olympic pool was added. The rides were gone by 1941 . . . — — Map (db m51428) HM |
| On Water Street west of Harrison Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | In 1803, Meriwether Lewis led the corps of discovery, 11 men on a keelboat, though Beaver County. They stayed overnight about 3 miles west of Beaver and stopped in Georgetown. This visit was commemorated by a reenactment in Rochester and Georgetown . . . — — Map (db m44791) HM |
| On Water Street west of Harrison Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Talgayeeta, a Cayuga Indian also known as Chief Logan lived here 1772. Logans sister Koonay married trader John Gibson here. Logans family was massacred by renegade whites at Yellow Creek in 1774. He then wreaked terrible vengeance on white settlers . . . — — Map (db m44880) HM |
| On Brighton Avenue 0 miles north of Adams Street (Pennsylvania Route 68), on the right when traveling north. |
| | Born in Rochester June 2, 1860 to Joseph R. and Matilda Cross Pendleton. United States Navy Academy 1878. He fired last shot in Spanish American War. Camp Pendleton California named in his honor. Died February 4, 1942. Buried at National Cemetery . . . — — Map (db m45789) HM |
| On Water Street west of Harrison Street, on the left when traveling north. |
| | By 1851 the railroad had arrived at Rochester. Rail transit had been developed in the year before and had finally spread through Pittsburgh and surrounding western Pennsylvania towns.
Railroads were built on flat surfaces - one commonly flat . . . — — Map (db m55185) HM |
| On Pine Run Road at Reno Road Extension/Grange Road, on the right when traveling east on Pine Run Road. |
| | Oakland United Presbyterian Church was organized in 1870. A frame building was erected in 1872 on this site, donated by Thomas Boggs. Three pastors served the congregation: Reverend J.C. Evans, Reverend J. Patterson, and Reverend J.A. Hazlett. The . . . — — Map (db m51797) HM |
| Near Harmony Avenue at Iden Way. |
| | Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania, is the oldest Masonic Lodge in Beaver County. Meeting continuously since it was constituted April 11, 1848, a year before Rochester Borough was incorporated the Masonic Temple was built in 1884. — — Map (db m45785) HM |
| On Irvin Avenue at Clay Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Irvin Avenue. |
| | Black residents of Rochester, some former Virginia slaves employed at Park Brick Works, organized the church in 1894 on Jefferson Street. The present church foundation was built in 1904 with bricks prepared by church men, women and children. — — Map (db m50184) HM |
| On Water Street west of Harrison Street, on the left when traveling west. |
| | Before bridges, ferry boats did a brisk business transporting passengers and their goods from shore to shore. But sometimes even ferries couldn't get through the area's frozen rivers in winter time.
It was in 1815 that the first bridge spanned . . . — — Map (db m55159) HM |
| On Adams Street at Henon Avenue, on the right when traveling east on Adams Street. |
| | The Camp House erected in 1870 by Michael Camp, Jr. Believed to be the oldest continuing family in Rochester. Leaders in civic, religious and fraternal affairs. This was home to three county commissioners and four masters of the Rochester Masonic . . . — — Map (db m50183) HM |
| On River Avenue at Bridge Street, on the left when traveling east on River Avenue. |
| | West Aliquippa was boyhood home of composer Henry Mancini, who wrote scores for more than eighty movies, winning four academy awards and twenty grammy awards. Born in Cleveland, Mancini lived at 401 Beaver Avenue and graduated from Aliquippa High . . . — — Map (db m48132) HM |
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