BEAVER FALLS  , a borough of Beaver county, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on Beaver river, about 31 M. from its confluence with the Ohio, opposite New Brighton, and about 32 M . N.W. of Pittsburg . Pop . (189o) 9735; (1900) 10,054, of whom 1554 were foreign-born; (1910, census, 12,191 . The borough is served by the Pennsylvania and the Pittsburg & Lake Erie railways . It is built for the most part on a plateau about 50 ft. above the river, hemmed in on either side by hills that rise abruptly, especially on the W., to a height of more than 200 ft . Bituminous coal, natural gas and oil abound in the vicinity; the river provides excellent water-power; the borough is a manufacturing centre of considerable importance, its products including iron and steel bridges, boilers, steam drills, carriages, saws, files, axes, shovels, wire netting, stoves, glass-ware, scales, chemicals, pottery, cork, decorative tile, bricks and typewriters . In 1905 the city's factory products were valued at $4,907,536• Geneva College (Reformed Presbyterian, co-educational), established in 1849 at Northwood, Logan county, Ohio, was removed in 188o to the borough of College Hill (pop. in 1900, 899), r m . N. of Beaver Falls; it has a preparatory and a collegiate department, departments of music, oratory and art, and a physical department, and in 1907—1908 had 13 instructors and 235 students . Beaver Falls was first settled in 1801; was laid out as a town and named Brighton in 18o6; received its present name a few years later; and in 1868 was incorporated as a borough .