Beaver Falls

What is worth your time in Beaver Falls.

• Geneva College campus — A small Christian college with a 55-acre campus in College Hill, including the older sandstone buildings Old Main and McCartney Library, which are open to the public.
• McCartney Library — Its collection holds the papers of Clarence McCartney, an early 20th-century Presbyterian minister, and its archives focus largely on the college; anyone may visit, though only those affiliated with the college can borrow books or use computers.
• Carnegie Public Library — A downtown library counted among the grandest Carnegie libraries in the country, whose ornate design led Andrew Carnegie to require simpler, cheaper buildings afterward; it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
• Merrick Art Gallery — A National Register-listed gallery in New Brighton, about a mile from the southern end of Beaver Falls.
• Air Heritage Museum — A museum at the Beaver County Airport, in one of the surrounding communities.

• Watch Geneva College football games and other sporting matches, the city's most popular activity.
• Walk or cycle the Beaver River Trail, which follows the river from near the southern end north to the foot of College Hill.
• Walk across the city and back in a couple of hours, since it is comparatively small.
• Drive through the early 20th-century residential streets of Patterson Heights, climbing the wooded hillside from downtown.

• Residents have a strong sense of local identity and usually know exactly where the municipal borders run.
• The surrounding municipalities are tightly integrated with the city, in some cases sharing police departments.
• Each part of the city was settled separately and has its own street system, so numbered streets and avenues do not line up across neighborhoods.