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

Little Blue Run Lake, the U.S.'s largest coal slurry waste impound, is located next to the town.

The area of the Ohio headwaters was long inhabited by the Shawnee and several other groups of Native Americans.

[3] Christopher Gist was one of the first English colonists to survey the Ohio River Region around present day Pittsburgh in 1751.

[7] After the end of the American Revolutionary War in 1783, settlers began to move into western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh and further west by way of the Ohio River.

The closest place of protection was Ft. McIntosh, (in modern-day Beaver), about 20 miles east of the Pennsylvania border line.

Another theory suggests the town was named in honor of the new U.S. President George Washington, who surveyed the Ohio River area years earlier.

Settlement was slow due to hostilities with the Native Americans until General Wayne's Treaty of Greenville in 1795.

Georgetown remained a river town for keelboats and later steam boats, until the expansion of railroads and oil drilling after the Civil War.

[15] Georgetown is a couple miles downstream from old J & L steel mills and other metal facilities such as ATI Allegheny Ludlum, Marathon Petroleum and the Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Plant.