German Beaver County
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Resources
New Sewickley Township
Beaver County Immigration
Pennsylvania & American Immigration
History & Heritage Preservation
Local Government & Other Organizations
New Sewickley Township
General History
- New Sewickley Township (Courtesy of Beaver County Atlas)
- History of New Sewickley Township–Milestones Vol 24. No 4
- Beaver County’s Hills and Valleys (by Denver L Walton, Milestones Vol 23 No 3 Fall 1998
- The Beaver County That Might Have Been–Place Names That Have Changed (Milestones Vol 26. No. 2, By Denver & Genie Walton)
People
- Early Residents From New Sewickley Township–Milestones Vol 11 No 2
Communities
- Wallace City–Gone But Not Forgotten (Milestones Vol 31 No. 4, By Jack Goddard)
- Wallace City: New Sewickley Township
- History of Crow’s Run, New Sewickley Twp.–Milestones Vol 29. No. 4
- New Sewickley Twp – Beaver County Landowner Map, 1860
Schools
Cemeteries
- Cron’s German Lutheran Church Cemetery, also known as Kroen’s German Lutheran Church Cemetery , Prince of Peace Cemetery, Freedom, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, USA
- Oak Grove Lutheran Church Cemetery, also known as Wagoner Cemetery, New Sewickley Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, USA
- Saint John’s Lutheran Church Cemetery, Cranberry Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania, USA
- Oak Grove Presbyterian Church (Milestones Vol 9 No 3–Summer 1984)
Churches
- Trinity Evangelical Lutheran (historical marker)
- St. Peter’s Lutheran Church
- Oak Grove Presbyterian Church
- Oakland United Presbyterian Church
- Wagner Lutheran Church (existed where Oak Grove Cemetery is on Klein Rd.)
From BCHRLF: “Early churches in the municipality were: Unionville United Methodist, prior to 1842; Oak Grove Lutheran Church, 1873; House of Mercy Lutheran Church, 1878; Burry’s Church, the United Evangelist Protestant St. Johns Congregation, 1855.”
Beaver County Immigration
- Beaver County Immigration and Migration Patterns (History Marker, Beaver, Pa)
- Women in Beaver County (History Marker, Beaver, Pa)
- Scotch-Irish dominated early Beaver County before it became a melting pot (2015)
- History of Beaver County (Fraise, 1888, Library of Congress)
See also, Butler County:
Pennsylvania & American Immigration
- FamilySearch: Pennsylvania Emigration and Immigration
- Pennsylvania Germans: The History Behind Their Focus on Land and Community (2022)
- Pennsylvania Germans: Journey to a New Land (2022)
- Family Locket: Pennsylvania Germans
- Germans and Agriculture in Colonial Pennsylvania
- German Americans (Wiki)
- The Germans in America – Chronology (Library of Congress)
- The German Society of Pennsylvania
- German Immigration in Pennsylvania: The First German Stronghold in America
- [German] Immigration and Relocation in U.S. History: Filling the Nation’s Breadbasket (Library of Congress)
Research
Maps
- Genealogical Map of Pa Counties (Origins of land development)
History & Heritage Preservation
Local History
Local Preservation
County & State Preservation
Local Government & Other Organizations