. History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania and its centennial celebration,. y of Beaver County Travis, was owned by Samuel Harper, the grandfather of JamesHarper, former county surveyor. He bought it in 1798 fromJohn H. Reddick. The burrs from this mill are still in use in thesteam mill at Frankfort. On the west branch of Travis was alsoAaron Moores mill. On Kings Creek was Jenkinss mill was at Hookstown, on Mill Creek, and on thesame stream, about a mile below, was Laughlins. There was amill on Service Creek, owned by Robert Sterling, which didgood work for more than half a century
. History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania and its centennial celebration,. y of Beaver County Travis, was owned by Samuel Harper, the grandfather of JamesHarper, former county surveyor. He bought it in 1798 fromJohn H. Reddick. The burrs from this mill are still in use in thesteam mill at Frankfort. On the west branch of Travis was alsoAaron Moores mill. On Kings Creek was Jenkinss mill was at Hookstown, on Mill Creek, and on thesame stream, about a mile below, was Laughlins. There was amill on Service Creek, owned by Robert Sterling, which didgood work for more than half a century. At almost every oneof the early mills there was a distillery. Here and there throughout the county were factories ofvarious kinds, the names of which linger in the memories of theolder people and which were famous for their products in theolden time, such as Elders cloth factory; Thomsons1 sickleshop, in Hopewell township; Cain & Shannons sickle shop, onService Creek in Raccoon township; and Foxs sickle factory on cs. .1-- ? .- ^/£&*. &&£? ^s Tr^%. FOX S SICKLE FACTORY SITUATED ON TRAVIS CREEK, HANOVER BEFORE l8oO. Travis Creek. There were Shanes, McCune and Goshorns tan-neries on Raccoon Creek, John Fergusons on Reardons Run,and Scotts at Scottsville. 1 This was the grandfather of Seward and Frank Thomson, the well-known attorneys ofPittsburg, and of Alexander Thomson Anderson of Beaver. a
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