One of the fixtures of Beaver’s Third Street business district over the past nearly 50 years has been the two-story, yellow-brick Hostess Gift Shoppe at the corner of College Avenue in the center of town. Owned and operated today by the husband-and-wife team of...
With a fascinating pedigree in the Beaver Area, going back many generations, octogenarian Sarah “Sally” (McCleery) Foster has shaped her own brand of local history and is passing a sense of community on to her offspring. Sally is widely known for helping to found the...
Written by Olivia Peabody & Kayden Blinn, Dutch Ridge Elementary School Students Our names are Olivia Peabody and Kayden Blinn. We are from Dutch Ridge Elementary School, and we are 11 and 12 years old. We interviewed multiple store owners in downtown Beaver to...
Submitted by ELAINE M. SAVOLDI, Secretary, Beaver Historical & Architectural Review Board; Realtor, Associate Broker Town Center Associations, LLC “People don’t flock to see modern buildings—they flock to see historic buildings and streets. Historic buildings...
Written by Olivia Peabody & Kayden Blinn, Dutch Ridge Elementary School Students Through the years, our town has hosted many special businesses that have become integral parts of our childhoods, providing happy and fun memories. Those businesses have evolved over...
In a cruel twist of fate, after decades of business and community service leadership in Beaver, Jim Todd’s well-ordered world was crippled in flame and smoke when his historic Todd Funeral Home burned in 2005. While the interior, second floor, and roof were badly...
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