Freedom is a borough in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States, along the Ohio River.

Originally founded as a steamboat building town, chief industries later included the production of oil, caskets, and monuments.

The society settled in what is now Ambridge, five miles (8 km) up the Ohio River.

One of the reasons the society left Indiana was because of harassment for their abolitionist activities.

Here, the Society gained worldwide recognition for its religious devotion and economic prosperity.

The Harmonites were abolitionists, and began placing signs along the Ohio River with one word, "FREEDOM".

[dubious – discuss] The area of the present-day borough of Freedom began to be called such on maps of the Ohio River used by the steamboat navigators.

The community of Freedom was founded in 1832 by Jonathan Betz and Stephen Phillips, co-owners of a steamboat building business.

New businesses included a foundry, and steam engines manufactured by J. Baker and Company, a large steam sawmill, and an extensive distillery and gristmill owned by J. Stahl and Company.

The merchants at that time were: Phillips and McConnell, Stile and Fisher, Phillip Bentel, John Donnan, J. W. Mead, three innkeepers: Samuel Furnier, J. W. Snead, and Thomas G. Kerr and two physicians: Drs.