History
Geneva College was founded in Northwood, Ohio in 1848, but it moved to northern Beaver County in 1880 after being offered free land by the Harmony Society, which was highly influential in Beaver Falls. After the college was established on land just north of Beaver Falls, a community grew up around it, and in 1892, it was incorporated as the borough of College Hill. In 1932, forty years after its incorporation, it merged with Beaver Falls.
As of the 1900 census, College Hill had a population of about 900. In recent decades, College Hill has become less of an industrial community than previously; the owner of the former Armstrong Cork factory donated the property to the college, which has since built an athletics complex on the site.
At the 2000 census, College Hill had a population of 3,562 residents, more than one-third of the city's total population of 9,920. Although the population had declined by 78 residents since the 1990 census, or about 2.14% of its total, College Hill fared better than the rest of the city, which lost 767 residents, or about 7.18% of its population, during the same time.
Read more about this topic: College Hill (Beaver Falls)
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.”
—Thomas Paine (1737–1809)
“the future is simply nothing at all. Nothing has happened to the present by becoming past except that fresh slices of existence have been added to the total history of the world. The past is thus as real as the present.”
—Charlie Dunbar Broad (1887–1971)
“Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.”
—G.M. (George Macaulay)