Monaca, Pennsylvania Monaca, Pennsylvania Former New Philadelphia Society church, established and led by Bernhard Muller from 1832 to 1833 Former New Philadelphia Society church, established and led by Bernhard Muller from 1832 to 1833 Location in Beaver County and state of Pennsylvania Location in Beaver County and state of Pennsylvania Monaca (/m n k / mi-nak- ) is a borough in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States along the Ohio River, 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Pittsburgh.
Monaca was first incorporated as Phillipsburg in 1840, and had been known by that name since the 1820s.
In 1892, the name of the borough was changed to Monaca with respect to the Native American Indian Monacatootha. Monacatootha (which means "Great Arrow"), also known as Scarouady, was an Oneida warrior chief, and was a representative of the Iroquois Confederacy with the authority to supervise affairs among the Delawares and Shawnees in that area. He met with George Washington in Logstown in 1753.
Monaca Borough took its name from a Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad station at the east end of town.
The territory on which Monaca now stands was granted by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by patent, bearing the date September 5, 1787, to Colonel Ephraim Blaine (1741 1804), who served in the Continental Army amid the Revolutionary War, from 1778 to 1782 as commissary-general of the Northern Department, and paternal great-grandfather of James G.
It was first titled for Phillips, and was long known as Phillipsburg. Phillips and Graham assembled various steamboats, including the William Penn, which carried the Harmonites from their second settlement in New Harmony, Indiana, to Beaver County and their third and final home at Economy.
In 1832, after leaving Economy, with about 250 former Harmony Society members, Muller and his followers started a new improve in Phillipsburg (now Monaca) with the cash they obtained in the settlement with the Harmony Society.
Perhaps because of ongoing litigation, and other financial problems, Muller's group decided to sell their communal territory in Pennsylvania in 1833.
Some improve members stayed in Monaca, while the rest followed Muller and his family down the Ohio River on a flatboat.
Many stayed in Monaca, however, and not long after Muller and his followers left, a new theological speaker titled William Keil showed up in the region in the early 1840s.
Keil was able to attract some followers who were former Harmony Society/New Philadelphia Society members, and his group eventually moved away and settled the communal town of Bethel, Missouri, in 1844, and later settled the town of Aurora, Oregon, in 1856.
Nevertheless, a number of former Harmony Society/New Philadelphia Society members stayed in Monaca, and perhaps some of their descendants live in the region to this day.
Edward Acker established a "Watercure Sanatorium" in Phillipsburg in 1848, and in 1856 when the borough's first postal service was established, it took the name "Water Cure".
Beaver County Historical Research & Landmarks Foundation".
In 1892, the name of the borough was changed from Phillipsburg to Monaca with respect to the Native American Indian Monacatootha (who was also known as Scarouady).
Today, Phoenix Glass Company/Anchor Hocking Plant #44 is positioned in Monaca.
In March 2012 Royal Dutch Shell announced intent to study and build a multibillion-dollar ethane cracker near Monaca to produce ethylene from abundant Marcellus shale natural gas in the area. It would be the first such unit assembled in the northeastern United States utilizing natural gas obtained from hydraulic fracturing as feedstock.
In June 2016, Shell Chemical Appalachia, LLC committed to the building of the petrochemical complex at the former Horsehead zinc site near Monaca in Potter township.
Monaca is positioned at 40 41 2 N 80 16 37 W (40.683966, -80.276986), on the south side of the Ohio River.
Bordering Monaca athwart the river are, from west to east, the boroughs of Beaver, Bridgewater, Rochester, East Rochester, Freedom, and Conway.
Two bridges cross the Ohio River from Monaca: the Rochester Monaca Bridge carries Pennsylvania Route 18 into Rochester, and the Monaca East Rochester Bridge carries Pennsylvania Route 51 into East Rochester.
A third, the Beaver Bridge, carries rail tracks owned by CSX Transportation from Monaca into Bridgewater.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the borough has a total region of 2.4 square miles (6.2 km2), of which 2.0 square miles (5.3 km2) is territory and 0.35 square miles (0.9 km2), or 14.89%, is water. In the borough the populace was spread out, with 22.0% under the age of 18, 6.8% from 18 to 24, 26.9% from 25 to 44, 23.2% from 45 to 64, and 21.1% who were 65 years of age or older.
About 8.1% of families and 8.9% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 16.7% of those under age 18 and 3.1% of those age 65 or over.
Countess Leon, established Christian communal colony near Minden, Louisiana, after having lived for a several years in Monaca Bernhard Muller, immigrant from Germany to Monaca; after that established Christian colony at Grand Ecore near Natchitoches, Louisiana; husband of the Countess Leon.
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History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania and Its Centennial Celebration by Joseph Henderson Bausman (1904) Volume II, p.797 United States Enumeration Bureau.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
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Municipalities and communities of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States
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