Beaver Falls historical museum basement of Carnegie Library of Beaver Falls, Pa. We did a quick tour through the museum to help promote a presentation on June 15, 2017 for the monthly meeting. I am inviting you to come out as we discuss the music scene in Beaver Falls from the turn of the 20th-century …
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Critique of an S.L. Price book about Beaver County History in general and Aliquippa specifically. Shot in basement Historical museum on March 1st 2017.
History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania and its centennial celebration, by Joseph Henderson Bausman. RETURN TO THE LISTENING LIBRARY: BEAVER COUNTY
Genealogical and personal history of Beaver County, Pennsylvania Volume II, by Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-1921 ed. RETURN TO THE LISTENING LIBRARY: BEAVER COUNTY
Genealogical and personal history of Beaver County, Pennsylvania Volume I, by Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-1921 ed. RETURN TO THE LISTENING LIBRARY: BEAVER COUNTY
Rare color home movie from the Scopellite family, Ellwood City/Koppel, Pa area. Circa mid-1940s. Tape #1 of 3. There is no sound. Although color movie film had been available to the public for amateur home use since the mid 1930s, its use still would have been relatively rare through the 1940s. It is most likely that …
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The Fallston Bridge has carried Traffic over the Beaver River since 1909. I originally reported that was to be demolished, but a local informed me that it will be preserved and the traffic over it will be reduced to about 15% of the current traffic. It will be replaced but preserved with a higher and …
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Ambridge Memories 1950 – 1970 is an Ambridge PA history blog with photos and information about Ambridge from the borough’s beginnings to 1971. The blog’s special focus is preserving and sharing memories of Ambridge from 1950 – 1970 including schools, churches, businesses, events, and activities. Curator Nancy Bohinsky Knisley, AHS ’67: I grew up in …