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Charles Cunningham bought the Morgan Carriage Works in Brighton Township in 1900, brought it to Beaver later, and in 1911 was prepared to build all kinds of carriages, phaetons, surreys, and road and spring wagons. In 1900, maps made by the J. L. Engle Company of Beaver appeared in schoolhouses and railroad stations over a wide area of the East, John Gibellini was chiseling monuments in his shop on Third Street, and Duncan Imbrie was cutting stone at Sharon and Fifth.
One who would remain to become prominent in church and woman's club affairs, writes of what it was like to be 17, and new in Beaver in 1902. With no radios, no TV, no movies or automobiles, social life centered in the homes and churches, with dances at the Terpsichorean Club in Rochester - and at Roll Trieber's ice cream parlor and bakery where long and deep ice cream sodas were five cents. There was no telephone visiting. With only a few phones in town, a message from Pittsburgh came to the central office from whence a messenger was dispatched to bring the person. If one's group was criticized for walking past "boys standing on the corner watching the girls go by", the response was that "we knew the boys were on the corner and we wanted to see to it they had something to watch"
McCullough's Market at Fourth
and Navigation Streets was a
typical corner grocery in 1900.
Many Beaver
area citizens of the time were
present when this photograph was taken at
Chatauqua, New York in 1888; the resort is
still a favorite with many local residents.
Dr. Todd at work.