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Founded in 1848 by Dr. Edward Acker, the Water Cure Sanitorium used hydrotherapy, or water, to heal and was the first hospital in Beaver County. It also served as the town's first post office in 1856. In 1866, the Phillipsburg soldiers orphans school was founded there by Rev. William Taylor. The building was destroyed by fire in 1876.
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