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104 HISTORY OF BEAVER COUNTY PAPERS. boarded in a house near by. With this expedition were two English brothers named Constable, who had no part in the expedition, but were along to see the country and sketch its interesting points. The owners of the Black Walnut Bottom wished to lay out a plan of lots on their tract, and engaged the Constable brothers who were engineers, to do the work. For their services they requested, and were granted, the privilege of naming the new town, which they called Brighton after their old home in England. The new town had varying fortimes, with some manufacturing and trading, but did not grow much until 1867, when new iiidustries were established in it, and it was incorporated November 9, 1868, as the Borough of Beaver Falls. Beaver Falls Chronicle. The first newspaper in the town of Brighton was called the "Beaver Falls Chronicle." This paper was the successor of the "Aurora," which was discontinued March 1, 1839, and began its existence in Rochester October 12, 1839, with J. Washington White as editor, who was the last editor of the "Aurora." It is said that Ovid Pinney was the originater of the paper. He owned a large amount of real estate in the town, and was one of its most prominent citizens, leaving the place in 1853. The motto of the paper was "Our coimtry right or wrong." It was a four page, six column paper, and in the amoimt of reading matter would compare favorably with many of the weeldies of today. The paper suspended some time early in the year 1840, the following reference being made to it by the "Argus" of March 11, 1840: "A number of the 'Beaver Falls