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1957 Map of Beaver Falls

Name: 1957 Topographic Map of Beaver Falls
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1989
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1989

About this map

Industrial and educational hubs define this stretch of the Beaver River valley during the late 1950s. The prominent campus of Geneva College overlooks the river at College Hill, serving as a cultural anchor for the larger Beaver Falls community. To the north, the confluence of Connoquenessing Creek and the river creates a focused industrial corridor where Ellwood City and Koppel developed around vital rail lines like the Conrail network.

Evidence of the region's extraction economy is visible in the numerous Strip Mines and Strip Mine operations scattered through the hills of Big Beaver and North Sewickley. Local history is preserved in sites such as Grandview Cem and St Marys Cem, while the landscape is modernized by the path of the Pennsylvania Turnpike cutting through the southern townships. The map also documents a vanished era of rural education with several township institutions like Glenkirk Sch and Hillcrest Sch still standing in the 1950s.