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 14.4 HISTORY OF BEAVER COUNTY PAPERS. The Quaker element was the dominant one in the town, and gave it that stability, conservatism, and love of liberty which has characterized it ever since. Here was the underground railway, with its true and trusted agents who helped runaway slaves on their way to freedom; temperance society, the Beaver County Institute for the promotion of science and literature, female seminaries, and other institutions. U. S. BANK BUILDING. The want of a newspaper was severely felt after the inauguration of the industrial period. The Fallston papers had done their work and passed away, and there was not a paper in any part of the valley outside of Beaver, after 1841, for a period of about thirteen years, when one was started in New Brighton. In all the towns from the mouth of the Beaver to Beaver Falls, New Brighton was the last one in which a paper was started, all the others preceding it by a dozen years and more, but unlike the other towns, except Beaver, when the first paper was given the people, the succession was continued in some form and under some name, with but little break, until the present time.