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By comparison with other mushrooming communities, the Beaver area has been fortunate in maintaining a deliberate pace. Bridgewater, once a manufacturing town, remains as one of the most concentrated settlements of early 19th century houses in the state, and its image has been enhanced in the summer by the conversion of the Beaver River into one of the largest marinas along the Ohio.

Vanport has maintained its pastoral appearance, even with the coming of the steady enlargement of the Westinghouse plant and two large housing projects.

Thanks to the sound long-range planning by the Brighton Township supervisors, where once farms flourished along the Tuscarawas and Dutch Ridge Roads, now fine homes on large wooded lots give that township the largest population in the area.

Good zoning practices and cooperation between town councils and businessmen have contained the business district, maintained a fine residential area, met the competition of shopping centers and malls, and still provided the services vital to a county seat.

 

King Beaver Apartments, a modern, comfortable

and convenient residence for restricted-income

senior citizens.

 

 

 

 

 

Thousands of feet have trod the stone arch bridge over

Gypsey Glen Run from school to stadium and back.

Access to the south side of the Ohio River and to the Greater Pittsburgh Airport

is greatly expedited by the Vanport Bridge of the Beaver Valley Expressway.


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