The first really big holiday celebration was held by the Vanport Volunteer firemen. They held a carnival off Toy Street in 1936.
That Paul Beggs built a house on Grove Street for $580.00 in 1930.
That Mrs. Paul Beggs had the first baker shop and it was the only one Vanport ever had.
The first justice of the peace was a Mr. Jordan in 1928.
That plans were found in Vanport which proved Hitler once wanted to bomb Curtiss Wright.
The first blacksmith shop was owned by a Mr. Reynolds who sold it to Mr. Mann in 1898. It was on Ferry and East Ohio streets.
The first flagpole was erected on Jefferson Street about 1930.
That Mary Nahas Hoyt grew a bean (a New
Guinea bean) 48 inches long which weighed more that 9 pounds.
It was eatable too.
Vanport owes its undying gratitude to Mr. and Mrs. George Wildman
and their Explorers, Rovers and Canoe Trails of Vanport's Post
488, in Division Lane, for their many civic contributions.
That Al Adams brought the first Wonder Bread Company to Vanport?
How proud Bailey K. Schaefer was of his
donation of bushes to the fire department? He watered them regularly.
Tom Lotz was the only Beaver County man to be a guard at the Nuremberg
War Criminal Trials, in the court room as well as the prison.
Miss Emma Bevington bought lot #1 in the Beaver Valley Improving Co. section of Vanport, Church Alley and Locust Alley, for $450.00.
The oldest living resident of Vanport, at age 87, is Mrs. Florence Hays.
The oldest living native of Vanport, at
age 77, is Mrs. Gertrude Eller.