Beaver+County



__**Beaver County ** __ 

Beaver county was created on March 12, 1800. It was formed from parts of the Allegheny & Washington Counties. It was named after the Beaver River that runs right through it. Beaver's many water routes made several Indian communites arrive there. Pennsylvania acquired this are of land from Indians with two treaties known as the New Purchase and the Last Purchase. In 1772, the first permanent settlement was built. Fort McIntosh was an imporetant place in Beaver County during the Revolution.

The water mills were only made possible because of the many waterways that flow through the area. Eventually, a canal was made that reached all the way to Erie.  When the county first started out, pottery and quality glass making were the most famous industries. In 1824, the county flourished economically for several decades and then finally slowed down. From 1860-1890, an oil boom took place. In the early 20th century, "Big Steel" arrived in the form of Jones and Laughlin Co. at Aliquippa, Crucible Steel at Midland, and the American Bridge unit of U.S. Steel at Ambridge. After this happened, it made the population grow rapidly. Trolles came to Pittsburg by 1905. The world's biggest dispatching point became the Conway Rail Yard and the entire Ohio Valley became one big industrial park. manufactures started to come to the area to produce things like seamless pipes, oil drilling gear, steel barges, auto parts, and electric-arc steel. The Shippingport nuclear plant and the Greater Pittsburg Airport offset a major impact of factory closings. The economys value for manufactoring increased by 92% from 1987 to 1992. Now, bitominous coal is mined from the surface and about one-fifth of the land is farmed. The picture to the left is a picture of the Beaver County Industrial Museum.

This is pottery that was made in Beaver County. 



This picture is a picture of the Beaver County Bridge.

__**Where i got my information from. http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/counties/browse.asp?catid=4 http://www.co.beaver.pa.us/ http://www.pavisnet.com/beaver/**__