New Galilee is a borough in northern Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States.
A large proportion of these were young married couples from eastern Pennsylvania, Virginia, and the north of Ireland.
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholson by deed dated May 6, 1819, conveyed to these three servants, who had so faithfully served them, the farm on which they resided.
Pompey Frazier and Betty Mathers continued to live with Mrs. Nicholson until her death, when they became the owners of the farm.
Pompey Frazier died without offspring and Betty Mathers became sole possessor of the property.
[3] The original homestead of Betty Mathers and her husband Henry Jordan was located at 709 Washington Avenue, next to the post office.
..[5] This location is now the museum of the New Galilee Historical Society and residence of the curator William Bittner.
The first election was held 'the third Friday of the following March, at which J. S. Hudson was judge, and W. D. Eakin and John Acheson were inspectors.
From 1860 to 1875 the Harmony Society operated two coal oil mills, one which was among the largest of its kind in the United States.
[6] The Beaver County clay company was awarded contracts with the U.S. government during World War I, which would help bolster its output to 30-36 million bricks in 1919.
In addition, Ralph A. Veon, Inc., mined and sold fire clay of the burley variety.
Last services were held in the brick school until the present frame chapel was erected in 1895 at a cost of $2100 for the lot, building and furnishings.
[3] In the summer of 1907 the Reverend C. A. Imhoff, a regional evangelist, came to New Galilee and held a revival meeting in the Wesleyan-Holiness tradition.
Afterwards, a small congregation of about thirty-five people was organized and began meeting in a local hall.
A lot was soon donated on Washington Avenue and a small church was erected and then dedicated on the weekend of January 25–26, 1908.
The Reverend C. N. Cain served as the first pastor of the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene of New Galilee, although the word "Pentacostal" was dropped in 1919.
[9] On June 19, 1923, a dream came true for the Roman Catholic parishioners, who had to travel long distance to worship.
[11] The club was founded by citizens who immigrated to the area from the Lombardia province of Italy to find work in the town's brick yards.
[12] On January 5, 2006, the building was destroyed by an unknown arsonist causing 1.2 million dollars in damages.
This new type of potato quickly became popular among local farmers for its productivity and better quality in taste.
The council planned for the monument to be placed on a 325 sq ft (30.2 m2) triangular lot bordered by Centennial, Washington and Maple Street belonging to Jack Walsh.
[17] Leading up to 1976, the town council had planned to place the veterans memorial on property owned by the fire hall due to its cost effectiveness.
The council was dissuaded when a petition of over 150 signatures asked that the memorial be placed on the Walsh site.
[18] In August 2018, plans were made to renovate the memorial property with the removal of a blue spruce tree, several large ewe shrubs and the brick bollards along the road.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 0.27 square miles (0.7 km2), all land.
Children in New Galilee are served by the Big Beaver Falls Area School District.