In the modern era, we take access to fresh water for drinking and bathing for granted. Turn on the facets in one’s kitchen or bathroom and water is readily available. In earlier times, that was not the case and therefore human habitation and population concentration...
Beaver’s oldest house has new owners, is getting an interior makeover, and should be back on the market this spring for just the right buyer who will appreciate its history and simple elegance. Located at the corner of 800 River Road and Market Street, the structure...
*Wise Lawyer and Law Teacher Submitted by MARGARET MCKEAN WITH SUE CUTRI, Beaver Residents Visitors to the Beaver Farmer’s Market no doubt pass by a small gray frame house each Saturday morning at the corner of Market and Turnpike Streets. But most people likely do...
Written by Chris Starkey, Volunteer with the BVFD Over the years the Beaver Fire Department has had several memorable pieces of fire apparatus. In December of 1937, the fire department took delivery of one of the finest pieces of firefighting equipment possessed by...
In 1830, Catholic residents of Beaver constructed a building on Fair Ave. for congregational use. The building was then dedicated by Bishop Francis Patrick O’Neil of Philadelphia, and around thirty families began meeting there for mass. This was the founding of the...
In days of old, great buildings rested on cornerstones. They were the principle piece of their building’s foundation, and often the first piece that workers would lay before laying all others in relation to it. A good cornerstone kept the foundation from turning out...