After the Beavertown Brick Co. Inc. got going, it changed ownership and the company name several times until its final demise.  It changed owners and became known as the Hill Brick Company and in 1946 it was purchased by and became known as the Glen-Gery Shale Brick Company.  Approximately 35,000 brick were made each day from the shale taken from the fields southwest of the plant.  About 1960 this plant was abandoned and today is the Garrison Leasing Inc

In 1943 Ira Middleswarth and Son started a potato chip factory.  It was a prosperous industry in our community.  It moved to Middleburg in October 1961, where it continues to be very successful and very prosperous.

The Houses of Worship of Beavertown and Vicinity

The first church to be built in the community was the Reformed and Lutheran in 1851.  (Today, it is the St. Paul’s Reformed Church.)  This was used by both congregations until some dispute arose and the case was taken to court.  The Reformed congregation won and then the Lutherans built their own church which was dedicated in 1880.  (Now the abandoned building just south of the Rose Garden.)

It is said that on the Ada Carpenter place a cabinet shop was run by Peter Kline in what now is her wash house.  He made furniture and it is said that every Saturday evening he swept the shop, lined up benched and on Sunday it was used to hold religious meetings.  Some time later this group of people built what was then called the little brown church.  It was so called because it was built of planks and painted brown.  This church later became known as the Evangelical Church which was built in 1865.  (Today it is the United Methodist Church.)  Since that earlier time only the Reformed and UM Churches remain, but with many additions and renovations having been made.  The Jehovah's Witnesses built a house of worship on Hetrick Avenue and have since moved to a lovely new Assembly Hall at 130 South Zechman Street.  Beavertown and Beaver Springs combined to build the Beaver Lutheran Church God’s Missionary Church, built in 1934, just outside of town, remodeled to become a magnificent and ever growing House of God.  The Parsonages for the United Methodist and God’s Missionary Churches are on West Walnut Street in Beavertown.

To be continued