Click Here to Return To Milestones Vol 9 No 1
A. When the Economite Society invested its capital in the village of Old Brighton (Beaver Falls) and laid out the greater part of the present Beaver Falls into building lots in 1866, there were but three industries in the town, which was about the size of the present Darlington of New Galilee, the enterprises being John R. Hoopes' tannery west of Seventh Avenue between Fourth and Fifth Streets; Archibald Robinson's paper mill at the upper dam of the Beaver, and Isaac Warren's soap factory between First Avenue and the river road down around Eighth and Ninth Streets?
October 8, 1927
B. First five drivers of the original horse car line were Levi Glenn, I.N. Mason, Enoch Hunter, Free Darling, and Samuel Gardner. Darling later purchased the horses used.
October 14, 1927
C. When the original horse car line in the two towns (New Brighton and Beaver Falls) on Saturday, July 4. 1885, and were so filled with passengers inside and upon both platforms all day that about every other trip they "jumped the track" at the grade crossing of the P. & L. E. R. R. at the end of the old wooden toll bridge, the passengers cheerfully helping to replace them, John B. Barrett of College Hill officiating as conductor and Robert Morrison as driver of the first car; the fares received during the day amounting to $55.00, and the conductors of the other cars used during the day being George Koch, Harry W. Reeves, and Free Darling. Also that no cars ran on Sunday, all of the horses being completely exhausted from the crowds of the day before; many of them being unable to rise from the stable floor?
September 8, 1927
D. The first passengers on the first street car to be operated on the lines of the Beaver Valley traction company? It was a horse-drawn car and A.W. Glenn and Frederick S. Mitchell of Eighth Avenue were the first passengers to board it. Mr. Glenn was the first to pay the nickel fare.
September 7, 1927
E. The street cars of the Beaver Valley Traction Company carried mail among the several post offices of the towns traversed by its lines and all bore upon their sides the words "U.S. Mail?" There was also a regular mail car which made the trips according to schedule?
October 27, 1927
F. When the dumpy little one-man one-horse
street cars ran from the New Brighton station on Fourteenth Street
to the car barns at about Twenty-seventh Street, Beaver Falls,
upon both platforms of which you could stand and smoke, and in
which you got your change from a little oval hole in the door?
May 14, 1927
G. Colonel Jacob Weyand was first superintendent of the old horse-car line, to be soon succeeded by Lycurgus Richardson, and three of the early drivers were W. J. McClymonds, James Boswell, and James Ross?
July 14, 1927
H. The northern line of the Economy plan of lots of Beaver Falls about Seventeenth street was defined by an old stone wall, reaching from the public road, now Eighth Avenue, eastward to the river at Adamsville?
July 14, 1927
The above statement was correct only until the incorporation of the Borough of Beaver Falls upon November 9, 1868.
I. The street car line from Twenty-seventh Street to Morado was started by those interested in the land developments about 1892 or 1893, and the first motormen of the two cars in use were John Timmons and Levi Glenn. Two cars were the equipment until the sale of the line to the Beaver Valley traction company on October 6, 1900 .....
J. Morado Park, established by the street railway people, and afterward fairly well neglected by them, has long been a favorite resort for small picnic parties in summer and the dance hall well patronized.
Submitted by Sidney Kane