The establishment
of the International Headquarters of Michael Baker, Inc., Consulting
Engineers, in Brighton Township has brought prestige and added
economic strength.Return to Topical Industry Page
The establishment
of the International Headquarters of Michael Baker, Inc., Consulting
Engineers, in Brighton Township has brought prestige and added
economic strength.
The modern plant of the Beaver County Times in Bridgewater, with its automated presses, national wire news and pictorial services, and large news staff, provides metropolitan news coverage. It is impossible to compare it with the first paper published in Beaver Valley, the Minerva of November 4, 1807, a four-page weekly, subscription rate $2.00 per year, carrying the latest intelligence from Europe dated August 15th of that year.
In 1941, Curtiss-Wright built its propeller plant in Vanport, which was sold in 1947 to Westinghouse and became the center of its Standard Control Division. Its 3,000 employees not only have had an economic impact on the area, but have also assumed leadership in civic affairs.
Overlooking a pastoral countryside, the
headquarters of the Michael Baker, Jr., Inc.
engineering fit-in in Brighton Township
services a world-wide operation.
Built during World
War II for the manufacture
of warplane propellers, this plant of the
Westinghouse Standard Controls Division
remains as the only large industrial operation
within the area.