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Fallston takes its name from a waterfall in the Beaver River. It lies on the west side of the Beaver River immediately opposite New Brighton, Pennsylvania and about a mile below Beaver Falls. The narrow space between the hills on either side and the Beaver River was dammed at the lower falls; the water power allowed Fallston to achieve great importance as a manufacturing center. The Harris's Pittsburgh Business Directory for the year 1837 states "This place and the surrounding neighborhood, bids fair to be extensively increased, in consequence of the immense mineral and water advantages which it possesses."
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History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania1888 · page 475Read the page →
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Fallston was regularly incorporated in 1829. At the November session of court, 1854, a petition signed by Joseph Thompson, burgess, John Jackson, G. N, Taylor, James Duncan, James Beacon, Samuel Kennedy, Albin Coats and Andrew Jackson, and approved by a number of prominent citizens, was presented, asking that Fallston, in- <3orporated under the act of March 19, 1829, be incorporated under the act of April 3, 1851, as the borough of Fallston. The decree was granted Nov. 30, 1854.
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History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania1888 · page 153Read the page →
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The rush in Big Beaver swept away the Fallston bridge, which, lodging against the old wooden bridge at Bridgewater, carried it down. Both swept against the railroad bridge of the C. & P. line, and the three then crashed against the P. & L. E. R. P. bridge, tearing out a number of the iron spans.
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Genealogical and personal history of Beaver County, Pennsylvania1914Read the page →
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Steubenville, Ohio. Resigning his position with this firm, he was employed by Matthew Elder, a woolen manufacturer of Darlington township, one mile south of Watt's Mills. After a few years residence in that locality he moved to Fallston and became a boatsman on the Erie Canal, running two boats, the "Banner" and the "Prairie State," between Pittsburgh, Meadville, and Erie. His next position was as toll-collector of the Fallston bridge, in which capacity he was employed at the time of his death, 1866.
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History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania1888 · page 473Read the page →
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Fallston was regularly incorporated in 1829. At the November session of court, 1854, a petition signed by Joseph Thompson, burgess, John Jackson, G. N. Taylor, James Duncan, James Beacon, Samuel Kennedy, Albin Coats and Andrew Jackson, and approved by a number of prominent citizens, was presented, asking that Fallston, incorporated under the act of March 19, 1829, be incorporated under the act of A])ril 3, 1851, as the borough of Fallston. The decree was granted Nov. 30, 1854.
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