Identifier: historyofbeaverc01baus (find matches)
Title: History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania and its centennial celebration,
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Bausman, Joseph Henderson, 1854-
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Publisher: New York : The Knickerbocker Press
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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ears. By the Act of Assembly authorizing this road tobe built, James Harper and William Hales were appointed towork out $1600, which was all paid to them in silver, and theyin turn paid it out in silver to the workmen. BRIDGES The construction of roads in a region so generously pro-vided tby nature with streams and rivers as is Beaver County,necessitates the building of bridges, and this work was earlyundertaken in the county. The bridges erected in this countywere generally of the most primitive kind, and were built ofwood, but many have in recent years been replaced by strongand beautiful structures of stone and steel. But several of theearlier bridges were quite substantial. A good bridge was builtover the Conoquenessing on the New Brighton and New Castlegrade. One over Raccoon Creek at Murdocksville was noted inits day, and has now been replaced by a fine iron structure builtjointly by Beaver and Washington counties, the dividing linebetween the counties being right on the bridge.
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Last of the Old Locust Mile-Posts Standing on the Frankfort Grade Road.From photograph taken about i8og by R. R. Hice. History of Beaver County 239 One of the most important bridges in the county, importantboth from its position and its history, was the old wooden bridgebetween New Brighton and Beaver Falls, which was torn downin 1900, and replaced by a modern steel bridge of the best style,erected by the Penn Bridge Company for the Overgrade BridgeCompany. The old bridge was built amid many trials to thosewho projected the enterprise. By an Act of Assembly of March20, 1810,1 a company was incorporated under the name, style,and title of The President, Managers and Company for erectinga Bridge over Big Beaver Creek, opposite the town of Brighton.Brighton, so-called, was then what is now the lower part of Bea-ver Falls. The Act appointed Abraham Wellington, JonathanH. Mendenhall, Benjamin Townsend, Isaac Wilson, and JacobYoho, commissioners to receive subscriptions of stock for theerect

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