Beaver County, Pennsylvania History

This database contains a history of Beaver County, Pennsylvania. The county was formed in 1800 out of Allegheny and Washington counties. Topics covered in this history included physical aspects of the county, the pre-revolutionary period, the revolutionary period, the first settlers, first land titles, erection and organization, county development, legal history, educational history, religious history, military history, and townships. Historical works such as this can be very useful in family history as they provide information on the time and place in which your ancestors lived, which will help you place them in a historical context.