Mayor Robert P. Linn has servedObviously, there is no way to pack even a small fraction of Beaver's history into a book of this size. There has been activity and change in Beaver over the past 200 years, and this will continue as buildings go up and are torn down. Businesses come and go, and so do the people - most of all the people. So gradual has the change been, almost unnoticed, that newcomers suddenly find themselves. older citizens.
Some Beaver families have lived here for generations, some for only a few years. Like others its size, Beaver has contributed to the growth of the great American West and Southwest, both in pioneer days and in the industrialization since World War 11. With less need for college trained people here, its young people graduate from college and settle in other parts of the country, but the population remains nearly constant.
Ever-larger apartment buildings replace large old houses and the residential districts become a mixture of one-family houses and multi-family apartments. More older people choose to remain here after retirement instead of moving to Florida or the West. New families move in as old ones move out, assuring a constant population, and these newcomers become a part of the Beaver mystique. Beaver is not static - and will not be - at least for the next 200 years.
Mayor Robert P. Linn has served
the town of Beaver continuosly
for over 30 years.
On of the nation's oldest
surviving pieces
of fire-fighting apparatus;
