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  Beaver
The beaver is the national animal of Canada and is depicted on the Canadian five-cent piece and coat of arms.
Beavers are nearly allied to the squirrels (Sciuridae), agreeing in certain structural peculiarities of the lower jaw and skull.
Beavers are sociable animals, living in streams, where, so as to render the water of sufficient depth, they build dams of mud and of the stems and boughs of trees felled by their powerful incisor teeth.
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 Henry & Beaver - Attorney - Lawyer - Lebanon, Pennsylvania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Moreover, alimony is described by the Pennsylvania courts as a "secondary remedy" available only where economic justice and the reasonable needs of the parties cannot be achieved by way of an equitable property division and the development of an appropriate employable skill by the dependent spouse.
That being said, a Pennsylvania woman who sold her horse "as is" recently was surprised to learn that the buyer was entitled to return the horse after finding out that the horse was older than expected and was not capable of jumping.
Pennsylvania and all of the states contiguous to Pennsylvania have adopted the Compact--Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, and West Virginia all participate.
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 History of Lawrence County Pennsylvania 1877
Little Beaver township was originally timbered with a magnificent growth of oak, hickory, maple, poplar, and various kinds of valuable forest trees.
Little Beaver township furnished men for numerous other regiments, and the crown of laurels for her living heroes is not unearned, while the garlands that each year grace the "graves of the fallen," could not be better bestowed.
The number of schools in little Beaver township, in 1875, was nine, with an enrolment of three hundred and twenty-one pupils, and an average attendance of two hundred and eighteen.
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 Ross Township- Township History
This purchase was confirmed with the Indians of Ohio at the Treaty of Fort McIntosh (Beaver, PA) on January 2, 1785.
A little later, they resolved to issue to the soldiers certificates to compensate them for depreciation in the currency with which they were paid.
In 1847, the formation of Shaler Township took away about two miles from the eastern side of Ross; so that from that time the township has remained as it is today, except for the formation of the West View Borough in 1905.
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 Jackson Township History
Jackson Township was established in 1854 from portions of Cranberry and Connoquenessing Townships.
It is bounded by Lancaster Township on the north, Forward Township on the east, Cranberry Township on the south and Beaver County on the west.
Around 1875, the fair was staged by Connoquenessing Valley Agriculture Association for the counties of Armstrong, Beaver and Butler.
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 Description of the Geology of Columbia County Pennsylvania
McCauley's mountain, in Beaver township, a canoe-shaped fragment of the Conglomerate XII, holding the lowest coal beds, stands alone in the Conyngham red shale valley (XI,) on one of the two synclical lines which come through the Catawissa mountain elbow.
Conyngham township is a square piece of Western Middle Anthracite coal field, included in Columbian county, with its Hartville and Centralia collieries.
A little lead and zinc ore has been found in the limestone of VI, near the west line of Center township, but the attempt to mine it was abandoned.
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 McDonough County, Illinois, Macomb Township, Bardolph
He was justice of the peace for a period of 11 years, supervisor of the township for three years, and school treasurer for several years, besides which he has filled other less important offices.
Cary A. Head, principal of the Bardolph public schools, was born in New Salem township, McDonough county, April 15, 1857, and is the son of Bigger J. and Sarah A. Head.
He is a republican in politics, and is chairman of the township republican central committee, and a member of the county central committee.
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 Pennsylvania No Fault divorce attorney | Pittsburgh support lawyer | Butler County custody law firm
In Pennsylvania, no-fault divorce is basically when two people want to get divorced and neither party is blaming the other for the dissolution of the marriage.
The most common grounds for a divorce  action in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are irretrievable breakdown of the marriage.
With no-fault divorce in Pennsylvania, we offer very cost effective solutions to help you obtain a no-fault divorce. When choosing a no-fault divorce, if both parties agree on the division of property, custody and support issues, there is generally a huge savings to both parties involved.
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 Allegheny National Forest- Recreational Activities
Pennsylvania is a diverse state with a wide variety of fishing opportunities.
The Little Drummer Historical Pathway is a journey through managed wildlife habitats consisting of two loops.
The trailhead and pathway improvements were funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation through the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act.
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 Forward Township, Pennsylvania
Township wage tax: 1 percent divided equally between the township and school district.
Forward Township was named for Walter Forward, who served two terms in Congress and secretary of the treasury under President John Tyler and a judge of the district court of Allegheny County.
Benjamin was granted a tract of 397 acres of land on Nov. 23, 1787 by the Supreme Executive council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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 Description of the Geology of Lawrence County Pennsylvania
All the upland east of the Neshannock and east and west of the Beaver river is occupied by the Ferriferous limestone supporting the three Kittanning coal beds; and in Big Beaver and Perry townships the high divides hold also the two Freeport coal beds, and even some of the lowest Barren measures.
The underlying sandstone which makes such noble cliffs on the Ohio river and Little Beaver creek is a laminated sandy shale along the Newcastle and Darlington railroad, but is quarried for flagstones near the west line of North Beaver township, and also south-west of Mt. Jackson.
In the S.W. corner of Plain grove township it is "block coal" (4`) and was used raw in the old furnace on Taylor’s run.
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 Pennsylvania (Harpers.org)
A couple in Milford Township, Pennsylvania, were suing a veterinarian for faking the death of their dog and then giving the dog to someone else.
A judge in Easton, Pennsylvania, sentenced a 73-year-old woman to life in prison for beating her 84-year-old neighbor to death with a claw hammer.
In Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, a man named Charles Carl Roberts IV, who said he was angry with God, entered a one-room Amish schoolhouse with guns, a bag of nails, a bucket, chains, clamps, and a tube of KY jelly, and shot ten girls, killing five; he then shot and killed himself.
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 A Little History
It is not known when Reger first settled in the Beaver Springs area, but it was most likely between 1787 and 1789.
By the late 1800's the area reached economic and political maturity with the formation of Spring Township in 1885.
Later named Beaver Springs because of its abundance of springs and beavers, the town grew at the turn of the century to include a printing press that published a local newspaper as well as books, a wagon factory, a buggy whip factory, and other small businesses.
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 Ancestor Tracks: Lawrence County Warrantees
Warrantee Atlas of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, published in 1908, is located in the Library of Congress and may have been the first of its kind undertaken by the state to plat all of the earliest surveys on township maps.
Beaver had been created in 1800 from Allegheny and Washington Counties; Mercer was created from Allegheny County in 1800.
Also see rootsweb for the township and borough maps of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania from the 1872 Atlas of the County of Lawrence and the State of Pennsylvania published by G.M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1872.
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 Little Beaver township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (PA) Detailed Profile
Little Beaver township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (PA) Detailed Profile
73% of Little Beaver township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 75% lived in Pennsylvania.
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 Shadowlands Haunted Places Index - Pennsylvania
About forty years ago a little girl fell off the cliff next to the bridge and her ghost are now seen there.
In the little shop on the corner of Wyoming and Green Streets, next to I believe Cousins Bar, there is said to have been various sightings of people walking through the storefront, in the kitchen, and in the basement.
The bodies of all are buried on the hill in a little cemetery, and the house was burned to the ground.
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 Township Biographiess
Was born in Pennsylvania in 1828, and at an early age was taken by his parents, Jacob and Elizabeth Krysher, to Knox county, Ohio, where he continued to reside until the year 1850, and in the fall of that year he came to this county and settled where he now resides.
Was born in 1823, in the State of Pennsylvania, and at the age of sixteen his parents moved to Knox county, Ohio; there he grew to manhood a farmer, residing in that county until 1847, when he moved to Montgomery county, Indiana, remaining there for three years.
He came to this township on the 12th day of March, 1860, and settled on his present farm, embracing 600 acres, 520 of which are improved, the balance being timber.
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 Moon Township Little League Baseball, Inc.: Fields   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Little League field located on Spring Run Road Extension in Moon Township, PA. From Brodhead Rd. turn onto Spring Run Road Extension at the Spring Run Market.
From Beaver Grade Road turn onto Coraopolis Heights Road and stay on until the road ends and make a right onto Hassam Rd. The school and field are on the right about 100 yards down Hassam Rd.
Make a left onto Beaver Grade Road and the parking lot is located along the first-base side of the field off of Beaver Grade Road.
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 History of Tredyffrin Township : Tredyffrin Township
Few townships in Pennsylvania are as rich in history as Tredyffrin Township, which is located at the easternmost edge of Chester County, Pennsylvania.
Ten or Tre is the Welsh word for town or township, and Dyffrin means a wide cultivated valley; from these words comes the compound tre yr dyffrin, or Tredyffrin, meaning a township in a wide cultivated valley.
The Township had its beginning in 1682 when a group of Welsh Quakers went to William Penn in England and purchased, at a price of ten cents an acre, forty thousand acres of land in southeastern Pennsylvania.
www.tredyffrin.org /general/history.aspx   (993 words)

  
 The Official Beaver County Web Site
Assistant Court Administrator of Beaver County: December 31, 1983 to March 15, 1987 (Resigned position at that time to run for election for Clerk of Courts)
Secretary to Executive Director of the Beaver County Senior Activity Center - August 20, 1970 to February 4, 1973
1989 to 1999 - Member of Executive Board of Pennsylvania State Association of Prothonotaries and Clerks of Courts - (having served as member of Executive Board, Second Vice President and President) Continues to serve on various committees of the association.
www.co.beaver.pa.us /ClerkofCourts/bio.htm   (527 words)

  
 Beaver County, PA. Genealogy Queries Surnames Mac / Mc
I have a letter written by James and Elizabeth Gorrell dated March 5, 1806, Beaver Co., State of PA. It was written to their daughter and husband, Sarah and James McDowell who were probably still living in Woodford Co., KY, or they may have just removed to Scioto Co., OH by 1806.
She was born May 3rd, 1827 in New Castle, Beaver county, PA. At the age of 18 (~1845) she married John McQuiston.
George died on June 7, 1898 and is buried in the Mt. Olivert Cemetery in Beaver County.
www.flealess.org /beaverquery/archives/Mac.html   (9178 words)

  
 Cycling Ohio Rail-Trails & Bikeways - Little Beaver Creek Greenway Trail
The Little Beaver Creek Greenway Trail and the Mill Creek Bikeway comprise two completed sections of the Great Ohio Lake-to-River Greenway.
The Little Beaver and Mill Creek are roughly 8 miles apart along the same abandoned railroad corridor.
The numbered roads are township and county roads, many of which may have names or numbers posted on road signs.
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 Northampton, Bucks County, Municipal Authority
An average of 65 percent of all stream and river water in Pennsylvania comes from groundwater.
When precipitation decreases and/or water is unable to soak into the ground - from a drought, from paving or when the ground surface freezes in wintertime - then the water table begins to drop.
On a larger scale, if you suspect the you water well is being impacted by a large groundwater withdraw and you live in central or eastern Pennsylvania, your river basin commission may be able to assist you.
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 Beaver County, PA. Genealogy Queries Surnames Cr
This information was obtained from the 1900 Census for Big Beaver Township, Lawrence County, PA (E.D. 93 Sheet 7 Line 89).
He was born in Ohio and then lived in Little Beaver Twp and then Wayne Twp with wife Martha Musser.His brothers were Abijah, William, James and Benjamin.
They are buried in Service Creek Cem., Beaver Co., PA Their children are: Belle married Anthony Miller in 1871, James married Margaret Kennedy in 1864, Sarah married John Moore in 1871, Mary married Joseph Thornburg in 1875, Margaret married William Robertson in 1879, Agnes married William Campbell in 1876.
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 A Native History of Slippery Rock
This area of western Pennsylvania was in contention during the French
Here they are, with what is known of their origin.
Others claim it was named for the beaver, for which the river
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 Sadsbury Township
It is a rural community lying southwest of Conneaut Lake and south of Meadville, Pennsylvania and contains 11,996 square acres, much of which is occupied by the waters of Conneaut Lake.
The old Beaver, and Beaver and Erie Canal passed through the Township and united a little north of the northern boundary in Summit Township.
The largest natural lake in Pennsylvania, Conneaut (pronounced kawn'-ee-awt) Lake is 3 miles long and a mile-and-a-half wide covering just under 1,000 acres.
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 Beaver Springs News
Middlecreek Township residents are invited to give input into an informal zoning study that could affect commercial and residential growth in the municipality.
State police said a man brandishing a rifle entered a Beaver Springs bank just before noon, took an undisclosed amount of money, then fled after stealing a pickup from an employee of a neighboring grocery...
Dealing with the normal bills is tough enough, but if you throw in the need to replace a broken-down family car, then there is little left to cover the added costs of the holidays.
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 BASF
John is Beaver Volunteer Fire Department's 1st Assistant Chief as well as a Production Operator for BASF in Potter Township, Pennsylvania.
This little lady makes her way to safety while a couple of boys show good form during the Stop, Drop and Roll drill.
The residents of the Borough of Beaver are fortunate to have the team of John Grosskopf and BASF supporting their children and community.
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