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1. Chapel Road was so named from what early church?
2. Once an Indian path, what road was used for military use from Fort Pitt to Fort McIntosh?
3. What was the name of the earliest township family?
4. Where is the historical marker located for the first highway in Beaver County?
5. What was the name of the township from which Center was formed?
6. Phillip Laubscher utilized the red clay of the township and started a family business. What was this industrious undertaking?
7. Was the Beaver Campus of Penn State built on land from the Turnbull dairy farm, Sydney Huffmyer residence, Tuberculosis Sanitorium, or the Beaver County Home Annex?
8. Early post offices were Shaffer (1880) and Bakers Landing (1883). Where is the post office today?
9. More activity was brought to the township through the completion in 1972 of a project built on the former Pettibon's Raccoon Golf Course. What was this addition to the business community?
10. What year was Fire Company No. I organized?
1. McGuire Chapel Methodist Church, orginally started in the old Davis School in 1857 A new building was completed in 1859 by Reverend Latshaw McGuire. The cemetery remaining is near the intersection of Chapel Road and Center Grange Road.
2. Brodhead Road. Formerly Glade Path, now Route 51 it was associated with Colonel Daniel Brodhead after he assumed command of Fort McIntosh. General Lachlan McIntosh constructed this first highway in 1778.
3. The George Baker family settled on land above Raccoon Creek in 1794. The Beaver Valley Expressway crosses the area with the Center K-Mart Plaza nearby.
4. At the North Branch United Presbyterian Church. North Branch Road is one of the original sections of the old Brodhead Road. It is believed it then crossed over Stone Quarry Road near Gee Bee Plaza to Sylvan Crest area then to the Ohio River through a valley opposite the Fort McIntosh excavation in Beaver.
5. Moon. It was divided into Raccoon (1837), Phillipsburgh Borough (1840), Potter (1912), Center (1914) and Monaca Heights and Colona Heights in 1932.
6. A thriving brickyard. Quality bricks came from the kilns on Chapel Road and bordering on whatis now Edgewater Drive. Many homes in Monaca were built with them.
7. All of them. Correct and in the order of succession with the dairy farm sold in 1905. The administration building today is part of the original from the past.
8. Hoffman's Center Pharmacy is a branch of the Monaca office in Center Plaza.
9. The Beaver Valley Mall.
10. 1929. Jack Coombs first President and Mike
Meiter first Fire Chief.