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.
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