The document provides information about the McCarl Industrial and Agricultural Museum of Beaver County, which preserves the county's manufacturing history. It details three facilities - the McCarl museum, Hamilton Forge and Foundry, and the McCoy Log Cabin - that will be dedicated during a ceremony on Saturday. The museum houses artifacts from industries that helped shape Beaver County's landscape in the 19th century, including textiles, pottery, glass and machinery.

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history
SILK AND THROUGHOUT
TEXTILES AMBRIDGE
Ambridge, which was known for its
THE 19TH CENTURY,
booming steel industry led by American
Bridge Co., was originally home to a softer
MANUFACTURING
side of manufactured goods.The Harmony So-
ciety, a Christian communal group that inhabited
AND INDUSTRY
the part of Ambridge now known as Old Econ-
omy Village, raised silkworms and produced silk
SCULPTED MUCH OF
and textiles during the mid 1800s. Pottery,
glass, ceramics and similar industries were
BEAVER COUNTY’S
found mostly in New Brighton, Beaver LANDSCAPE.
Falls, Beaver, Bridgewater and
Vanport Township.
Valleys were carved out for roads,
TOWNSEND WIRE MACHINE NEW BRIGHTON and railways and hills were leveled for
A wire-forming machine from Townsend Co. in New Brigh- vast industrial parks.
ton features decorative legs. Charles Townsend, whose family Nowadays, schools, ball fields and
owned the factory, said after about 1890, machines were shopping centers stand in the flat foot-
no longer designed with such flourishes.
“[Machines] just became functional,” he prints of many of the manufacturing
said. “There was no beauty or aes- plants of the past, and much of the
thetic side to it after that.” county’s industrialized setting has been
reshaped. Younger generations may
not recall the major manufacturing
center Beaver County once was, but
they can see and touch the technology
that helped create the place they now
call home, thanks to a new project of
the Little Beaver Historical Society.
ENGINE,
CHAMPION
GAS
BEAVER FALLS
The museum’s
8,000-pound Champion
gas engine ran on natural
gas and was used in the Alan
Freed Mill in Beaver Falls.The
KEYSTONE MODEL 3 SKIMMER BEAVER FALLS engine was manufactured by
A large Keystone Model 3 skimmer is one of the focal points at the the Champion Saw and Engine
McCarl museum.This early version of a backhoe was manufactured by Co. of Beaver Falls in 1903
Keystone Drilling Co. of Beaver Falls, which was on the current site of and is the only known engine
Beaver Falls High School.The skimmer shovels were used to move of its kind still in existence
earth and for tasks such as stripping coal and preparing streets in Beaver County. Many
for paving. Charles Townsend said the skimmers and a similar engines produced
similar Keystone machine used for drilling were by Champion and other
used all over the world, and a few are still area manufacturers
operated in parts of Alaska. were used for
scrap over the
years.
Illustration by The Times’ Christopher Ream
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IAM preserves DARLINGTON — On one of the
hottest days of summer, it
ture comfortable and pro-
tects the artifacts from the
Hamilton Forge and
Foundry and the McCoy
The three facilities,
built by the Little Beaver
The industrial museum,
named for the late Foster
county’s is cool inside the McCarl
Industrial and Agricultural
scorching sun and corrosive
elements outside.
Log Cabin, will be dedicat-
ed this weekend during a
Historical Society, were
opened to the public on May
McCarl of Chippewa
Township, who founded
manufacturing Museum of Beaver County. The McCarl museum, special ceremony and rib- 31, 2008, and are part of the McCarl’s Plumbing and
The building’s insulation also known as IAM Beaver bon cutting from 2 to 4 p.m. society’s ongoing efforts to
history keeps the indoor tempera- County, along with the Saturday. preserve the county’s history. MUSEUM, PAGE A12
Today’s Man threatens wife with garden tool Flights to Philly dwindle
Times BY BILL UTTERBACK
BUTTERBACK@TIMESONLINE.COM
then used the hoe to wreck
their living room.
outside for police, that her
husband might be violent,
As part of the merging
of flight schedules be- More transportation
Classified C1 AMBRIDGE — An Ambridge Fred Poore, 51, of 804 according to the report. tween Southwest Airlines
news: Page A8
man was charged with 18th St., was also charged Inside, police found and AirTran Airways, four
Crossword C7 two counts of aggravated with simple assault after Fred Poore “clearly highly flights from Pittsburgh to
assault after threaten- police arrived at 1:34 p.m. intoxicated ... speaking pro- Philadelphia will be elimi-
Dear Abby B5 ing to kill his wife with a July 26, according to the fanities and making state- nated by the end of the year. November and some flights
garden hoe, according to police report. ments that made no sense,” Southwest officials an- over the summer to Florida,
Funnies C6 Ambridge police. Jacqueline Poore was according to police. nounced changes to the up three to five to Orlando
Jacqueline Poore told not allowed to have a tele- The report described low-cost airline’s schedule and up two to three to Tampa
Sports D1 police she spent three days phone, she told police, the living room as being Wednesday that included in November. The extra flights
in the basement “to keep but she eventually found “in total disarray with all of its daily flights to will be eliminated in February.
away from” Fred E. Poore her husband’s phone and turned over and broken Philadelphia being discon- Bob Jordan, Southwest
II, who had been “drinking called her daughter, Katie, furniture (and) broken tinued starting in November. spokesman, said the moves
for several days” and con- who contacted police. glass all over the floor.” Southwest also will end are part of an effort to opti-
fronted her with the hoe. Police were warned by The hoe had been broken two of its six daily flights mize operations and sched-
The report said Fred Poore Jacqueline Poore, waiting into three pieces. from Pittsburgh to Chicago in ules at both airlines.
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