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2 unusual facts about Beaver Falls


Chippewa Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania

The township shares the ZIP code of nearby Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania; therefore, all addresses in Chippewa Township actually carry the Beaver Falls name, despite their location within the designated township.

R. E. Chambers Company

The Ralph E. Chambers Engineering Company was mainly an amusement park and carnival-ride building firm that took over the facilities of the bankrupt Traver Engineering Company in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania from 1933 into 1962, although Harry Traver continued to work for the company.


Candy Young

While attending Beaver Falls High School in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, she set numerous records that have stood since.

Harry Traver

In 1919, he founded the Traver Engineering Company in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, which created amusement rides, including the Tumble Bug, The Caterpillar, Laff in the dark, Auto Ride, and the Circle Swing, a ride similar in concept to the earlier Captive Flying Machines ride popularised in the UK by American-born inventor Sir Hiram Maxim.

Phillip Henry Bridenbaugh

Bridenbaugh was the ninth head college football coach for the Geneva College Golden Tornadoes located in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania and he held that position for five seasons, from 1917 until 1921.


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Joseph Ladd Neal

College Hill Station (Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad), Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, 1910, John Abiel Atwood, engineer.

Kapuskasing River

The Kapuskasing River continues northeast over the White Otter Falls, the Bakatase Falls, the Camp Three Rapids and the Big Beaver Falls, takes in the right tributary Saganash River and reaches the town of Kapuskasing, where it is crossed by Ontario Highway 11 and the Ontario Northland Railway line (formerly Canadian National Railway, originally the National Transcontinental Railway).

Ron Rowan

Born in New Brighton, Pennsylvania, Rowan starred at Beaver Falls (Pennsylvania) High School, averaging nearly 26 points per game as a senior.

WAMO

WAOB-FM, a radio station (106.7 FM) licensed to Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, which used the call sign WAMO-FM from 1960 until 2009

WAOB

WAOB-FM, a radio station (106.7 FM) licensed to Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, United States