Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
vii
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
ix
CHAPTER
1
Beaver County: The Places That Shape Us .
1
CHAPTER
2
The Land and Its People
7
CHAPTER
3
Exploration 1776-1856
36
CHAPTER
4
The Establishment of Beaver County and Its Communities 1856-1870
50
The World Outside Comes to Beaver 1870-1900
101
Entrance into the Twentieth Century 1900-1920
179
CHAPTER
CHAPTER
5 6
CHAPTER
7
Prosperity and Depression 1920-1950
221
CHAPTER
8
Post War Movement into Better Times 1950-1999
298
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
385
INDEX
387 V
