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Mechanical Reproduction: by Louis Max Grossmann

Pictures are the courtesy of

ERMA MACKALL

who is a descendant of the pioneer

settlers of Georgeto\m. Rebecca Mackall

w-as the wife of Benoni Dawson, who laid

out the town and was probably its first

settler. Georgetown lies on the

Rainbow of the River

1n a secluded, lovely spot, greatly

untouched by the rapid pace of the

bustling world.

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Georgetown It wa s because of a fine location on the

left bank of the Ohio that the village came into existence in 1793. From it you can see into Ohio and West Virginia, and for a century it was known to every traveler go­ing down the river to "the West." It be­came a borough in 1850.

The place grew rapidly, and within a few years was full of Dawsons, Mackalls, Cal­hoons, Kinseys, Pocs and a few other fami­lies, most of whose names arc still to be found in the town today. The Poes in­cluded Adam and Andrew, famous Indian fighters.

Now the same river, flowing in the same course, has almost completely cut it off from the· normal · traffic of even inland commerce.

Georgetown's fine location above flood level made it a good stopping place for keelboats and other craft bound up and down the river.

It was the second town in what is now Beaver County when it was laid out by Benpni Dawson, less than two years after Daniel Leet had begun planning Beaver on the site of old Fort Mcintosh. And it wasn't named for George Washington, as is commonly believed, but for George Daw­son, a member of Benoni's family.

Thomas Foster licensed the first hotel

CALHOON, R. CALHOUN, C. CAMPBELL, Mrs • CARNAGEY, J.

Mrs. J. COGLEY, J. A.

DAWSON, B. Heirs G.

• there in 1802, and the post office was established in it the same year.

Georgetown, caught in a corner of the pocket be-neath the great bend of the Ohio, still maintained a slight de­gree of vigor as long as the ferry con­tinued,,

Property Owners found in Caldwell's

Centennial Atlas 1876 for Georgetown

& Greene Township

GEORGETOWN

LAKE, J. LAUGHLIN, To LYON, Samuel MACKALL, I. D.

J.

(page 100)

James McCLURG, W. A. McHAFFIE, William McMILLIN, J.

s.

TODD, T. TODD & DIEHL TRDmLE, J.

J. A. Mrs. (Hotel & Store)

WILKINS, Mrs. WINCH, J. B.

G. w~

Heirs DAUGHERTY, G. D. DIEHL, J.

J. H. & Co.(Store)

Nash, G.(Saw & Grist Mill) s. Other:

Mrs. PARR, A. H.

EBERT, Nancy J. EWING, J. PEPPARD, E.

Episcopal Church

Methodist Episcopal Church

HACKATHORN, C. POE, A. HAFFIE, Hrs. H. G. W. HAMILTON, Dr. s. T. POR'l'ER, J. A. HUSTON, E. POTTS, T.

KENNEDY, J. PRUDEN, S.

KINSEY, A. M. RINEHART, R. A. Mrs. A. M. SMITH, J. E. c. SPENCE, E. H.

Grand Heights Cemetery

Public School

Public Square

Oil Lots T.

ALEXANDER, 0, ALLISON, James

Samuel M.

BEAL, E. John

BRITTAIN, James BROTHERTON & STILES BROWN 1 J arne s BRUNSON, J. W. Heirs BRUN'l'ON, Joseph

Thomas William A.

BRYAN, Joseph

CAIN & LAUGH.LIN CAIN, Wil:liam CALHOON, J.

M. GAMBOL, Mrs. R. CAMPBEl..L, D.

James Wil.1iam

CAROTHERS, Mrs. C. Heirs

CHAPMAN, S. CHRISTY, James CLEAR, S. COLE, Mrs. M. CONKLE, Mrs. M. COOK, P.

William CRAIG, D. M.

James John

CRISTLER, E. M. T.

DAVIS, William Dll!:HL, J. H.

William DITHRIDGE, E. D.

EACHEL, Charles EATON, I.

I. H. ELLIOTT, John ERWIN, J. EWING, J.

Heirs

FERGUSON, John William Heirs

FRAZIEH, William Heir3

GALLAGHER, S. GIBB & REED

GREENE TOWNSHIP

GLASS, D, K. GLENN, W, & T. C.

Wm, &. T. C. GREEN, D.

I. HAYWARD, 'William HOOD, A. Heirs

Mrs. E. HU'l'CHESON 1 John

JOHNSTON, John Robert

KENNEDY, Alex.

KERR, D.

D. H. J. s.

M. C. s.

.KEVAN, S. M. Kl'l'SON, T,

LAUGHLIN, F. S, G. D. L. J. N. A. R. Thomas William

LAWRENCE, Benjamin Brothers Dr. M.

LEATHEM, James LEEPER, Robert

s. H. LEIPER 1 Samuel LOCKHART, E.

MACKALL, J. James Heirs

MANOR, J. Heirs MARKER, T. McCALLY, John McCASKEY, George McCLEHANY, William McCLESTER, J, McCLURG, D.

Joseph McCREADY, J. B.

(page 77)

Joseph (Chopper & Shingle Machine)

McCOY, J. R. William

page 29

Mc:OONALD, Jamea John

MoOA.FFICK, D. MciNTIRE, Mc.liliN1'Y 1 R:L. McKINLEY, James McLAUGHLIN, S. McMAHIN, J. C. MERCER, J, MILLER 1 J arne s MOFF.E'l', R. MONTGOMERY, John MOODY, J.

Robert E. s. w.

MOORE, Samuel Heirs Thomas lPhill1s Island)

MOORHEAD, S. W. MORRIS, William M. MORROW, William MORT.I!:N, William

NASH, George NELSON, James

s. Samuel

NICKLE, Alexander Matthew

NISWANGER, Jac

ORMAN & CO.

PETERS, J. R.

POE, A.

J. R. & G. C. J. R. Oil Well

Adam Andrew George Thomas

.PUGH, D.

RAMSEY 1 J arne s W. & F. William L.

RE.r;D, B. Heirs James Heirs J. M. R. T. Samuel

ROBB, William ROBERTSON 1 Alex.

s. s. ROGERS, William

SCOTT, James William

SEARIOH'l' Hoira SHANE, J.

Miss M. & H. SIMPSON, Mary SMITH, H.

Samuel SPENCE, E. SPENCER Brothers S'l'ALEY 1 J. S'l'EVENSON 1 S. STEHLlNU, William D. S'l'EWAHT 1 G.

J. H. R. W. s.

SWMIEY, Andrew D. J. B. John Thomas

SWEARINUEN, B. L. Jackson Samuel William V.

TEMPLE, J. T. THOMPSON, James

Milo s. Samuel

THORNBURGH, J. Heirs TODD, C. J.

J. R. TORRENCE, James

s. TRIMBLE & CO.

William R.

WILSON 1 William WlNEN, J. B. WITHROW, Thomas WRIGHT, A.

WYNN, J.

J. J. D. N. Thomas

Greene Township, pase 2

~I Georgetown Cemetery

Hookstown Cemetery lOld Methodist)

Mi~ Creek H1l1 Cemetery

Mi~l Creek Presbyterian Church & Cemetery (Old Mill Creek)

u. P, Church and Burying Ground (Tomlinson Run)

Cane Mill

Mineral Spring

Post Office & Store

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Warrantees

ALLSPAUGH, Henry*

BELL, Hugh*

BROWN, John

CAHEY, Samuel

CAIRNS, William

CAMPBELL, Arthur

William

CHAPI-1AN, J. H.

Warrantees & List of Persons Receiving

Patents in Greene Township, Beaver Cormty

as formd on the original patent maps.

Patented to - Date

Henry ALLSPAUGH - 1788

Hugh BELL - 1788

. Matthias H00~7.96~

Samuel CAHEY - 1807

William CAIRNS - 1837

Arthur CAMPBELL - 1832

# of Acres

212

400

256 ..------. 166 .3/4

12

13 3/4

34

Map # l$ - l

Tract Name

"Hannah"

"Be11emony 11

"Chestnut Level 11

"Aleppo"

"22"

"9" * CHRISLEY, Michael - --

(See Henry CRAIG)

Joseph McCLURE - 1855

Michael CHRISLEY - 1788 408 "Feelinghousen" ------ - -· -~- - -···-' Cl:iRISTLER, John

Samuel

COLE, Silas

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John CHRISTLER - 1869

Samuel CHRISTLER - 1820

Mary COLE - 1873 CONELLY, Samuel Jonathan HOGUE - 1842

CONNER, William, Jr. Rezin BARNES et a1 - 1873

William

COWEN, Alexander

(CRAIG, Henry & ~ William CAY.PBELL

CRAIL, Edward

CROSS, George

DAVIS, Martha

DA"wSON, James

William CONNERS et a1 - 1839

Alexander COw~N - 1802

Henry CRAIG et a1 - 1787

2 "20 11

48 "29" 9

14 "7" 30 "24" 7 "30"

246 "Cowley" 201 "Mil1town 11

63 "27" 10 "8"

153

100

- 10

File #

P-13-270

P-14-79

P-25-250

P-56-4.49

H-37-345 H-32-124

H-51-359

P-14-48

rl-64-166

H-17-291

H-70-773

H-4.4-89

H-72-335

H-40-536

P-47-89

P-10-5~

H-47-507

H-43-67

H-15-284

H-10-14 Robert D.*

EATON, I saac

Edward CRAIL - 1828

George CROSS - 1840

Thomas BURNSIDE - 1818

James DAWSON - 1813

Robert D. DAWSON - 1790

Isaac EATON - 1803 376 "The Bone of Contention" P-15-269

JarnesJ_J.obn.a.ton.~ Thomas MOORE - 1795-k-. ~ .._.,.--~--~---'-'---=-·· ·

John et a1. Samuel CALHOUN et a1 - 1816

E~NGS, James James EwiNGS - 1802

FEGAN, Alexander* Alexander FEGAN - 1788 (Assignee of Thomas MATTHEWS)

FOSTER, Thomas

Thomas FRAZER, William

GIBSON, Sarah

GILFILLEN, Joseph

GOODRICH, Jesse

William FRAZER - 1805

Matthias HOOK - 1802 ---- ----------John Lee WEBSTER - 1795

Andrew SANDS - 1874 page 24

389

402

421 287

349

3

7

72

232

378

1

"Orphan 1 s Plains" P-51-8

"Locust Ridge" ..... -------==- - . P-25-279

H-13-115 "Effingham" P-47-90

"The Whisky ?-till" P-13-53

1111 11

"12 11

"34" P-50-178 "Sarah's Delight" P-56-78

"Reardon's Bottom" P-22-484

"35" H-72-64.4

Greene Township, page 2

Warr8lltee :s Patented to - Date II of Acre:J Tract Name File H

GOODRICH, Jesse & Robert MOFFIT

GORMLEY, John

HAMILTON, George

Hugh HAYS, John HENRY, James &

William NELSON

HOOK, Ha_~~hia~ Matthias

HOOKE, Henry

HUBLEY, John

INGLES, Nathaniel

JORDAN, John

,.KARR, _]_avid*

KIRKPATRICK, William LAUGHLIN , Alexander

Alexander

Benjamin

John

Robert

Robert

Thomas William William &

Samuel McCALLY

Andre SWANY - 1860 122 -----------John GORMLEY, in trust for

heirs of David DAVIS.Dd - 1852 99

George HAMILTON - 1786 235

Hugh HAMILTON - 1786 235 Henry SMITH et a1 - 1869 67 James HENRY & William NELSON -1797 28~

_Ma~~~-liQOK_~_l7§7__ __ Peter WICOFF - 1837

Henry HOOKE - 1806

Ann REDICK et a1 - 1810 Nathaniel INGLES - 1826

Ann REDICK et a1 - 1816

David KARR (alias CARR) - 1789 --Matthias HOOK - 1818 Alexander LAUGHLIN - 1827

Alexander LAUGHLIN - 1810

Benjamin LAUGHLIN - 1833

Thomas LAUGHLIN et a1 - 1800

Robert LAUGHLIN - 1793

Robert LAUGHLIN - 1788

Thomas LAUGHLIN - 1809

William LAUGHLIN - 1786

361 .,- ·- ·· ··· ·-· -

15 8

400 242

400

398 · .........---,.

94 494 202

27

400 220

39~

63 400

Wm. LAUGHLIN & Samuel McCALLY-1874 137

LAWRENCE, Joseph Joseph LAWRENCE - 1886 2

MATTHEwS, Thomas

William*

McCALLY, Samuel

McCASKEY, Mathew

J1g_QREADY ,.,.H\lgh*-Joseph*

McCJLLOUGH, John

HcHARG, William, Jr.

Mc i\ENNEDY, William

(See Alexander FEGAN) William MATTHEWS - 1818

(See William LAUGHLIN)

Matthew McCASKEY - 1796

Hugh McCREADY - 1804 ·------------------ ----- -Joseph ~P~~-17B9 __

John McCULLOUGH - 1817

William McHARG, Jr. - 1823

Harry D. ANDERSON - 1913 page 25

400

403

402

400

459

11

3

"26 11

"Heir-ship" 11Deer-Park 11

"17" "Wolf Den"

H-55-159

H-48-605

P-6-331

P-6-332 H-65-196

P-31-385

"Hook & Crook" P-1b-62 "'---- - · .. ---· -- ··---·· ·

"25" H-38-296

"Harrymount" P-56-438 "Bear's Lament" H-3-64

H-23-516 "Sarvis Plain" H-13-254

P-16-69

"33" H-16-289

H-24-471

"Lacock's Friendship" H-3-517

"3" H-31-426

"The Bank" P-35-627

"Landa down" P-19- 322

"Dungannon" P-14-141

"Mount Prospect" P-63-486 "Drummand" P-6-476

"19"

"Milton"

•Chestnut Hill n ------T--------"Whi te Plains"

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"6"

H-73-13

H-74-585

H-12-304

P-29-4

P-54-23 P-14-518

H-15-154

H-31-311

H-78-109

WarranteeB

MEASON, John

MILLER, Adam

Samuel

MOFFIT 1 Robert

NELSON, William

NIELSON, John NISWANGER, Elijah

OFFNE..>t, John

PEARKS, Robert

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POTTS, Noah

POWER, Samuel

Samuel

PURVIANCE, John

REDICK, John, Jr.

REED, John RITCHIE, John

ROBISON, John

RUTHERFORD ~ Robert*

Robert*

SCOTT, Abraham James

SMITH, George

Samuel

STILLWELL, Obadiah

THOMPSON, James

William

THORNBURG, James

John

WHEELER, Nancy \tliLSON, Samuel

WITHEROE, John*

John

Patented to - Date

John MEASON - 1786

Adam MILLER - 1799

Samuel MILLER - 1631 (See Jesse·GOODRICH)

(See James HENRY)

II or Acroo

289

304 110

John NIELSON - 1820 137 Jacob NISWANGER - 1875 1

Ann REDICK & Isaac KERR - 1816 400

David & John PARKS - 1814 381

~Andrew -~O_E __ :-__ 1}66__ }]}_

Matthew HOOK - 1833 159

Thomas E. & George A. TROUP - 1906 25

Thomas J. POWER - 1851 108

William LAUGHLIN - 1803 145

John H. REDICK - 1786 ~

John & Sarah RUSSELL - 1837

Jonathan GRANT - 1805

John ROBINSON - 1836

Robert RUTHERFORD - 1788

294

58

117

37 1,018

(Virginia Certificate #281) 1,300

Mary MILLER - 1807 98 James SCOTT - 1812 36

James LANGLEY & ·wilJj,~__LITTLE~;l. 795 400 ·---· -- ~. . ~ .. -. - . ..---Samuel SMITH - 1846 25

Francis HOLLAND - 1795 James TH0~1PSON - 1815

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William s. CAIN - 1872

Nancy WHEELER - 1830

Samuel WILSON - 1836

John WITHEROE - 1795

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339

330

3

84

3

14 185

395

424

Greene Town~hip 1 page 3

Tract Name

"Long Headow"

"10 11

"The Oblong"

"Poe Wood"

"21"

"23" "Mill Town"

"Hanabel"

"28" 11Camperdown"

"The Monster"

"Enruskillen"

"2" "Chestnut Flat"

"15" "Bilboa"

File ,;

P-6-481

P-36-3

H-30-433

H-17-266

H-71-727

H-13-254

H-9-598 P-6-344

H-32-214

H-77-163

H-48-217

P-53-224

P-6-445

P-50-182 H-36-628

P-14-102

P-59-280

H-7-342

P-23-389

H-45-546 P-22-417

H-11-581

H-35-416

H-71-407

"16 11 H-28-166

H-39-50 "Witheroe's Flatt" P-23-309

"Hills" P-23-309

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IN 1'ES1'IMO.N'}' that the above is a COP/I of the on:tina.l rcmaininJ! on file in the Department of Internal Affairs of Pennsyluania, made conformably to an A.ct of Assembly app7'01Jetl the 16thda!l of

February, 18.J3, I have herez~nto set my Hand and caused the Seal of said Department to be afji:l.:ed at Barrisbur~, this ..... .... 5~concl. u •••• • day of .. May ............. .. .... .7906.

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From the History of Beaver Cormty

1888

G-EORGET0\1-::\ BOROlJ~H.

This borough is pleasantly situated in the north part of Greene tO\\·nship~ on tbe Ohio ri1·er. It is one of the oldest settlements in Dea1·er county, and was ]aiel ont on the 1:3th of Jrm., lj9:3, by Benoni Da \\·son. \Yho came from ~IontQ:omer\r countv. Jicl .. about 1 ISO. w ~ u ~ ~

1-Ie (lied ~Iay hi~ 1:3013, aged sixty-four years. I-Iis ,,-ife ';n1s Rebeccrr (Mackall) Da ,,-son, ,,-ho died Oct. 13, 1816, aged se\·enty-fiTe years. Thev are both buried in the old Georg·etown cemeterv. TheY were

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members of the Protestant Episcopal church. They had thirteen child1·en- nine sons and four daughters. One of

his sons, Tbomas~ bas a grandso.n~ Benoni Dawson, still living in Glas­gow, opposite Georgetmn1. Anotber son, l\icholas, has grandchildren living in and aronncl Georgetmn1: among \Yhom may be mentioned John D::t\Yson and :Jirs. Dr. S. T. Han1ilton. Still another son. George, . '-' . marriecl Jane ::Jiackall, by whom he had ten children, among w·h01n \\·ere Benoni Da11-son . Georg·e DaiYson and R. D. Da1Yson, ,,-hose IYife.

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~Iary J. Da\\·son~ and daughter ( ,,-ife of EchYard Spence). no,,- reside in Georgeto\n1 .

Originally the name IYas 1n·itten as consisting of t\yo distinct parts, Geoj·ge T o1.cn. The tendenc.'- bas been to combine, and make it appear as o!1e. Th.is suggests t \H) t beories as to the origin of the name: one that the. n<.une \\·as besto\\·ed in honor of George Dawson, .son of the ol'iginal .BenonL \\"ho O\Ynecl a portion of-the. t01n1 plat. A second anLl more prolmhle theory is that the name \nt.s besto\\-ecl in honor of the GeorgetO\rn adjoining the national capital.

Georgeto\Yn early became a pbce of residence for those engaged· in steamboatii1g. [lnd occupies that position at present in -the rank of Yilb~·es. The ele·nltion aboYe the beautiful Ohio ren<..lers it free fron1 ......

all anxiet\r as to o\·erfl.O\L Some of the early tal-el'n-keepers at Georgetown were Nicholas

K1·elll and Philip Dncomb. Tbey lJotb received license to keep ta1·ern~ at the August session o~ court, 1'3(1±. ·At the :May session, 1:30;), \Vill-

HIST1.:oUY OF BL\. YER COC::\TY.

iam Carnagy and Thomas Foster "-ere likewise commissioned to keep ta,-ern~ and continued in tbe business for many years. At tbe :Jiarch session: 180:3, James Preston, and at. the August session, I SCI!\ Joseph Smith, \\·ere gi,-en pet·mission to l\:eep houses of public entert<tim1wnt.

Thomas Foster iYas the iirst postmaster of the place, his fil'st appointment bearing <.bte ~-i_pril L 1802. He held the position until the 1st of October~ ISO I: "-hen John Christmas \\·as appointed. He retained the position until Sept. 10:1821, \Yhen Foster was re-appointed. I-Ie continued to clischai·~·e its duties until he was succeeded b\- Zebi1lon

~ . K.insey: June 2, 1S35. Tbe follo\i-ing is the complete Jist of the post-masters from 1S02 to the p1·esent time: Thomas Foster~ John Christmas, Zebulon Kinsey, Hugh :JieCllllongh: Salah Pruden, Thomas Fry, Charles Calhoon, George \Y. Calhoon, Samuel C. Trimble, Henry J. Kinsey and itlrs. Lydia P. Kinsey, the present officer.

That the people of the place did not all ha,-e angelic dispositions in those primitiYe times is attested L>y the accompanying document, which is a specimen both of uniqueness ancl candor. It was e\~idently gi,~en to release the holder frmn the suspicion tha.t the ear-crop \\·as a, mark ·of punishment infiictecl by the authorities of those clays:

PEXXSYL Y.-\XIA, ) BE.-\ YER CO'CXTL .1- s.s.

Personally came Thomas Foster, uf Georgttown, in said county, bC'fore me, one of the associate judges of the court of common pleas for said county, and being sworn in due form of la'W, deposetb and saitb, tbat in tlte month of ..\Lly la st or beginning of .June a fight or personal combat took place in Georgeto\m, in fwnt of tl1e deponent's house, bet,dxt Thomas Ross of said tO\Yn (a lauortr) unci .JanH s C< ou-y, in '\Y}Jich f~l1t tlJt ~nid Thomas Ross had the hinder part of his right tar bit out- lwth much disfigured lJis ear.

Sworn and subscribed the said fifth day of .August, 1807.

(Signed) . Tno:--Hs FosTER.

Jxo. H. REDDICK, ~\ssociate Judge.

The borough \\·as incorporated Feh. 25~ 1850. TJ1e first commis­sioners of e1ection were Samuel Smith, .James Tocld and Aclam Poe. By the census of lSSO the borong·h had a,_ population of 288.

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Georgetown Northwest of Hoo.Y-.stown on Ohio River Green Township One of the oldest settlements in Beaver County being laid out in January 13, 1793, by Benoni Dawson, who came from i'lontgomery Cour:ty, Maryland about 1780. His wife was Rebecca Dawson. 3oth are buried in Old Georgetown Cemetery on the hill above the town. They were ~embers of the Protestant Episcopal Church and bad nine sons and four daughters. Here was the home of river Captains and boat builders. Its first post office appointment was 1802. Adam Poe, the Indian fighter,; 3enohi Dawson, Benjamin }zkall, William Carnagy, Thorr~s Foster, John Bever, Zebulon Kinsey, Calhoor:s, Trimbles and rrany others were first settlers.

Bruce Yansfield Dam As we enter the town As we enter the town we c:::oss over the pipelines which r.ave been laid down the old railroad right of "cY to a giant earthen work dam, (which will be the largest east of the 1-:ississippi River when finished) which will convey the sludge frorr. the new plant at Ship~in~·o:::t. Eventually after about 35 years this will create a recreational lake. The Dam is built across Little 3lue Run which flows into Mill Creek near its juncture with the Ohio River.

Shippingport Sand and G~vel Company The gravel for the cooling towers of both the new rart of the Atomic Flant and the ones for the Bruce ~;ansfield Plant was dredged from this area.

Saint Lukes Episcopal Church Corner of Third Street and Farket Ca. 1813 This is the oldest Episcopal Church in Beaver County and the oldest church building to be in constant use west of the Allegheny mountains. Its first services were held on a flat boat a:::ound the beginning of the century. It was one of the few churches to be visited by the first presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States. Its first pastor was Rev. Francis Reno of Virginia. The present brick structure ~s built in 1833 replacing the original log building of 1.813. It r.as several bo_a.utiful stained glass windows and much of the old furnishings.

Georgetown Post Office Market Street North This post office serves 75 families in the borough route which extends clear out to Frankfort Springs. postrraster was Thomas Foster, April 1, 1802.

Pepp:!.rds Store ?<:arket Street North

Est. 1802 and 600 families on the ru_ral

Its first appointed

In the 1876 Atlas on the ffiap of Georgetown, it shows several stores. This one I remember in my childJ10od as being owned by Ollie Peppard. Eany a stick of peppermint I r~ve r.ad from its candy counter. Deilhs and Todds are shown on the map as r2ving stores in 1876.

John Bever Block House Corner of New Street and Water Street This is now the home of rx. and }Xs. John Nash. John 3ever came from Ireland and settled on this area ca. 1788. He furnished supplies for the block houses which protected the early settlers from the Indians. In 1790 he married Nancy Bowman of this place; One of their daughters married James Bowman of Brownsville. Mirtilla lived in Ner~colin's Castle. It was deeded to George Ebert by Jacob Poe in 1845. In 1872 George Ebert deeded it to John A. Trimble. He was the grandfather of Joh11 Nash who now lives here.

Captain George Ebert House Corner of Water Street and Short Street This house was the home of Captain George Ebert. He was captain of the Jviollie Ebert, a famous packet steamer named for his only child. In later years !·~ary Ann Ebert married Captain John A. Trimble. The people in these families lived, talked, and worked Rith the river. Today r~s. W. H. Welborn lives in this historic house. Captain Fredrick Way says she has a welth of antiques which find a perfect setting in a horne which is near 100 years old. She is also the mother of txs. Nash.

Thomas Foe House Corner of First and Z.iarket Streets Ca 1820 Thomas and Elizabeth Foe came to this area and built a log house on the .corner of First and ~arket Streets, Thor.as was the son of Adam Foe the famous Indian fighter. All of his sons were river men, It was through their efforts that the First rlethodist Episcopal Chu:!:'ch services were started, Later the log house was taken over bv his son Jacob Poe, Jacob ~~s married to Mary Ann Ebert, They had five sons, three living to maturity, one of whom was Charles the father of the late Lillian Foe Wagner, the last cescendant to live in this house and the last of this line as she was an only child and left no children, The older part of the ho~se is put together with wooden pegs and the window glass is very wavy and thin. The house has had rrany additions. The house is now owned by ~~. and ~rrs. Harry Schmidt who hope to restore it.

Georgetown Cemetery On hill south and above town Coming back up Washington Street as we make our way out of town, if you look up you see the historic Georgetown Cemetery, where rrany Revolutionary Soldiers are buried, Among them Benoni Dawson, William Carnegy, Benjamin 1-iakall, Amos Wilkinson and others.

Georgetown Road to Hookstown Georgetown road to Hookstown follows hill Creek up stream. It once had a stage coach trat ran from the ferry, from Smith's Ferry through Hookstown, Frankfort Springs, Florence, Burgettstown to Little Washington and was called the Washington Road.

Segment of a story taken from the

Observer-Reporter, July 6, 1972,

written by Jlin Mullooly on Georgetown

· Georgetown, PennsylYania, i~ nearby Beaver County, is a village of much history. Located along the historic Ohio, it still retains a whisper of the days of the Poes, Calhoons, Kinseys, .!\Iackalls and others who helped carve out the rich transp-ortation heritage of steamboat days in the Tri - State.

Article taken from the Georgetown

Chronicle, November, 1877

· One man who lived and died in Georgetown, was Capt. Adam : Poe Sr., who, in 1887, wrote of his days on the river. Capt. Poe was a descendant of the famed Indian fighters, Adam and Andrew Poe. ~ Follm\ing is the final of a

series of articles.

By JIM 1\IULLOOL Y

Last winter, death claimed a very - good· and interesting frientl.

.This was Mrs. Lillian Poe Wagner, whose father, Charlie Poe, had operated a livery stable in Georgetown for many years. Mrs. Wagner was a storehouse of Poe lore and with her own Poe "talent," had given piano lessons for many years ' . to residents o f . Georgeotwn and surrounding · communities. She had been a lifelong resident of the village.

In - he~:. late seventies, Lillian · Poe Wagner never failed to entertain· visitors with her fine use of the piano keyboard. In the front room of the quaint . old Poe home she lived in, she : had two pianos. A "grand," and -an- "upright." On one in-strument she would play 1 "Humoresque' \\ith one hand, while on the other side would do "Swanee River' with the remaining hand.

We often teased her with the : statement that "she should be on, the Lawrence Welk show with such talent!" -

Her stories of G€orgetown and th~ Poes were legion. _

'Mrs. Wagner's passing leaves a -deep void - in the telling of the story of G€orgetown; 1;-ut others, like Mrs. Helen Finley, Mrs. · John Mackall and :Mrs. Welborn,' will carry the torch! for future researchers. I

GEORGETOWN. -~-

.Is situntecl in the South-western cor- I ncr of Beaver county and i.$ locntcd on n. high, level bottom, overlooking the Ohio river, · commnucliog a beautiful

! · view of the picturesque scenery on the ! opposite side of the river, o nd of the. r broken romantic hills of Ohio and

\Vest Virginia. Its inhabitants num.'· per nbo_ut ·three hund reel, most of the runle members bf whieh fo llow bontingl ns their occupation, · so thnt, n.fter n rise,. the appearance of the pluce re­minds- one very much of Goldsmith's " Deserted Villuge."

Three stores supply the people with dry goods .n.r11l groccric.9. Oue public house n.ccommodutcs the few travelers '"hose busiueS's or plensure culls .them

. this way. A post-office and smith ~hop meer the demand on their separntc de­partments. Two churches, Episcopal und J\{ethoclist, supply nn order-loving and clnrrch~goiug ~eople \\'ith religious prvilleges.

The chnrncter of the place is goon, ~ there being no liquor sold, neither in

public nor on the sly. There 'nre no mnnnfact.ories of n.ny lcinrl in the plnce.

Severn.l oil wells hn.vc been rmnk n.nd oil ha.'l been obtained in paying quantities, but for some canse, they hn·.'e h .... ·':\u· al.Hu~;.!:r--,- ~ -:v,.. .. t .. --.,·-"Jtc low price of oil n.nd the_, difflculty nod cost of getting _it to market runy bn.ve hnd something to do with it.

Messrs llfacnll & Co nre now. engaged in sinking n well nnrf huve r·eaehcrl1~ depth of GOO feet. They expect when they rench n. depth of70U feet, to strike th~ main oil nrtery. It is t.o he hoped thnt their labor nnd expenditure of menus, mny be remunerated. Coal of

- good qnnlity is found in abundance nenr the plncc, nnd there is nn 1'\ feet vein ofthis.vnhmblc min$ml only tlO feeb below the surface~ which couhl be shafted n.ta. moderate cost. No doubt

the clnys .used in pottery nnd in mnk­ing fire brick, could be obtainetl in the surrouo.diog hills iu suffici~nt abun­dance to justify. the erection of n. fuc­tory. The bottom on which George­town · is built, being some three miles long; pr~ents a beautiful site for n city.

Oue of its grentcst wn.nts is n. rmi: roo.c1, and . u. little more capital - :mel business euergy, It hns rtllources iu _nLuuuuuce. They only need develop-

~ ment to mnke it one of.the most flour­' . l" . lS ung towns on.the Ohio river. Thn.t

8 feet vein of co11.l will be worked. 1~t

110 distn.nt clny, aurl fleets of coal bnrgcs will be lndeued here for the South.

T_ho,se boln,hcroic pioneers, n.nd Inditm fighters, of whom snch honornblc mcn­t.ion is mn.ue in the history of border

wnrfnrC-Afln.m itiiil Anr1rew 'rb~!l settled not fni· from this '[>lnce, s~~(~ i of their descendn.nts are residents ofl this villnge. A ~hort time since, we I hn.d the plcnsnre _ of dini.ug with !'

1\Ir. George· Poe, the only surviving, s?n of Andrew Poe, nown. henlthy, ac-: tJve old mnn in his eighty-seventh year. I It was only n. sh'ort distnns;e below I Georgetown, 'thnt .the bnttle for life j took plnqe between Adam P.oe* nn._,... "Bigfoot;" The Poes who·~-e names will be found on the list, elsewhere pub­lished, nrc thP-grnucl chihlreli nnd grent grand children of these pioneer settlers.

*We follow hi~tory. Bnt 11-fr. C. Cnllwnn oftlli~ plaee,_ who w.nH ~C<JII."intcd with the.'e I brothers dnrmg the1r !Jfe-tJme, nml who had often hcnrrl them relate the particnlnrn of the fight, OR"ertR that history is Wrong, nnd that Andrew, nn<l not Arlam Poe, wns the l;ero in the conllict with "Bigfoot."

John Bever's Dwelling

Jghn Bever emigrated to America from Ireland and settled in Beaver County,

. Pennsylvania, about 1788 . He furnished supplies for the block houses which

protected the early settler s from the Indians. In 1790 he married Nancy Bowman

of Georgetown .

In his book about John Bever , Thomas J. Malone states that the house on

the northwest corner of lot #11 of the Bever addition in Georgetown incorporates

part of the "mansion or dwelling" of John Bever and it is the "blockhouse".

The original house was made of logs, two stories high, walls 17 inches thick,

inside measurements 16 feet by 16 feet with puncheon floors and the ceiling

not over 7 feet high. It has a basement under the old part. The foundation

has 4x4 inch studding, 18 inches apart filled in with pressed brick .

Lot 3 11 was deeded to George Ebert and wife by Jacob Poe and \vife

January 16, 1845 . January 22, 1872 George Ebert deed it to John A. Trimble.

He was the grandfather of John Nash who lived in the house until his death .

The Poe House

In 1820 Thomas and Elizabeth Hepner Poe came to Georgetown and built

a log house on the corner of First and MArket Streets . Thomas was the son

of Adam Poe, the famous Indian Fighter . All of his sons were rivermen.

One son, Adam, later made his home in the house recently owned by the Eaton

and Brooks families . Elizabeth Poe was known as a devout Christian and an

industrious wife and mother. She opened up her home for the first MEthodist

church services in Georgetown, and along with Rev . Wesley Smith, she organized

the first Sunday School classes and planned for the first church building.

In later years, Thomas Poe built another home overlooking the river at Front

& Market Streets. The log house was then taken over by Jacob and family .

Jacob was married to Mary Ann Ebert. They had five sons, two of which died

in infancy. The house itself is strange and interesting with many mysteries .

At some time there was an apdition built on to the log part and after a while

the log part was torn down and a new section put on. The older half of the house

was put together vnth wooden pegs- even the rafters and crossbraces. The window

glass is very thin and obviously, very old. This was the home of Lillian Poe WAgner_,

granddaughter of Jacob and the last of this branch of the Poes. She was an

only child and had no children of her own. None of Jacob's other sons had children.

!-~athoc.i:::::n '.-:B.s fcu:::1ded in 0-r;,orgeto".-m in t:-:.8 e2.rly 1t_3C 1 s,

of ~ho~as and ~lizateth Ee;ner Poe. ?h~re the first Sunday

School cla~ses ~ere organized 2nd held, and the fir~t church

It ~as built in 1534 ~ith the Rev. S~ith as Faster. It ~as

cescriced lat8r e.s s. :::::isers.ble f:?..ih.::.r·e, "dsf'sctive i::-1 1.Jl::-n

a:r:.d siz~. '' Rc•.r. Garrett Jonas ce,lled it a sr.eep po::-1 a::.d saiC.,

"·,-;t.en :. t r2.inec, it ;:as nec,: sse.ry to ~o o-c.t d.oor·s tQ ~st i::-1

t :-:e C.r~;--. "

~as lik8ne~ to the sjs~et~n of a b~e hive or a s~w ~ill that

in need of repair~ involvin~ a lar;e

T.!.e~.-i 0l~ur cl:.

?he p~ese~t building vas started in 1276, near t~e close of

?~e carpenter ~or~ w~s done by ~. Nash and A. ~artin. The

God on. ?-.Tov. 1 1 ' ,..., "'! •

'v • .'1 • Sr.1i_th,

fr~m [round to to~

92 feet. It is hs 2.ted

furn:::.c:~ s, lighted t·.-:o s:..z

li&Ct cha:r:.~e~iers. ~~.e Ghro:::~iele li.sts tl!e nE:.r.1cs of.' G.l:_ Oo:-:er·s, the a::'.:)·i.lJ.1-c es.~::

;;a\' e, 2.::-:.d an 2 po lo~-y to

in~Gr~~ti0n p~tlis~ed.

a::J.y '::'l-:e

-:.·:ho misht be offended at c'c:.l..<r-~h ~-:2.11 C-3 1 'J0 years

:--~ C. -v- i !"l6

clc, on the

The pressnt F~stor is Da~i~ Lewis 2. student minister.

Throu[h tl:e y·2s.r-s t~-:e C!:.urch has been ·..;ell cared Lor

2.Ld brou:.).'":t u_J "'.::o date f:::om tL1e t) til"'le l·:ith nei·: plumbing,

ago, .. hen it needed re.:-E-irs, the

with the present o~e. . .

~he pr?sent car~eti~3 a~d fur~iture was installed four ye&rs a~o.

~~sre is a ps.r=o~a~e t~hind t~e church which, at t~e present

onlJ child. John ~·-. :--, • , l 1. ~~ lill D.!.. 2. •

Co.pt. ?rc::l ·~~.-ick ~:ay

says • 1 • • .c • -"

3~"1.~ h:::_s .a -::~·~c_lth. of c.ntlques H.l.lCrl .Llll....!. a p2.-_~fect se.ttin:; in a

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Unveiling the Honor Roll - Georgetown

Making apple butter in the backyard ( Mackalls)

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"The Old Bridge" - demolished to make

way for the present structure

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Old Stone House - no longer standing

Once the home of James & Sidney Mackall

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One of the old Todd houses ··

The Old Schoolhouse (demolished in a flood)

Old Barn on old Mackall Homestead

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lhe Public Square in the heart of

Georgetown

(Home o£ Erma Mackall m the backgrormd)