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Anyone ever hear of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania? |
Travel Info Hello, Has anyone ever heard of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. Is it a nice place to live? Is it safe? Thanks. Travel Tips Yes, about 30 miles or so from PIttsburg, Pa. The only thing really good about it is Joe Namath went to high school there. There are some nice state and local parks there, but it is in the middle of the "rust belt" (an old steel mill site) and is the archtypical steel town. I agree, I would not want to live there. Keeping in mind I grew up close to it (Chester, WV) many years ago, and I did not like it then.Yes, I've heard of it. I've even been there. No, it's not a nice place to live. There is no reason on earth anyone would want to live there. There is nothing there, except a few ugly strip malls, many with huge vacant spaces. Yes, I live about 30 miles south of Beaver Falls, PA. It is an industrial type town. Has it good areas and bad. Micheal Keaton filmed the movie "Gung Ho" there back in the '80s Beaver Falls is a city in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. It is located 31 miles northwest of Pittsburgh, and on the Beaver River, six miles from its confluence with the Ohio River. A variety of manufacturing plants had kept the residents busy in the twentieth century, however, the city has suffered a fair amount of economic malaise lately due to the decline in the steel-making capacity in the Pittsburgh region where Beaver Falls is situated. Originally called Brighton, Beaver Falls was chartered as a borough in 1868. It adopted the commission form of government in 1913. Population counts were as follows: in 1890, 9,735; in 1900, 10,054; in 1910, 12,191; in 1920, 12,802; and in 1940, 17,098. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 9,920, with the drop in its population being attributable to its being centrally located within the Rust Belt. On May 31, 1985, an F3 tornado hit just north of the city as it went across northern portions of Beaver County, as part of the eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania tornado outbreak. The city is perhaps best known in fiction as the setting of the television situation comedy Mr. Belvedere. It is also the birthplace of athlete Joe Namath and model Joanie Dodds. Ernest P. Kline, Pennsylvania's Lieutenant Governor from 1971 to 1979, resided in the city and represented it in the Pennsylvania General Assembly from 1965 to 1971. The plates for United States paper currency are manufactured here. Geneva College is located in the College Hill neighborhood on the north side of the city. wikipedia |
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