Editing Monaca, Pennsylvania (section)

===Mid- to late 1800s===
[[File:NewPhiladelphiaSocietyMonacaPA.jpg|thumb|right|[[New Philadelphia Society]] Church, erected 1832.]]
Edward Acker established a "Watercure Sanatorium" in Phillipsburg in 1848, and in 1856 when the borough's first post office was established, it took the name "[[Water cure (therapy)|Water Cure]]". In 1865, Reverend William G. Taylor bought the Sanatorium buildings for his Soldiers' Orphans Home. The Home, according to one of the students, consisted of a "dormitory, dining room, schoolhouse, bathhouse, woodshed, carpenter shop and a two-acre playground." It burned in 1876. There is a historical marker near the point where Fourth Street meets [[Pennsylvania Route 18|Route 18]] that reads: "Water Cure Sanatorium founded 1848 by Dr. Edward Acker. Used [[hydropathy]] or water to heal. First hospital in [[Beaver County, Pennsylvania|Beaver County]]. Town's first post office, 1856. Phillipsburg Soldiers Orphans School founded 1866 by Rev. William Taylor. Destroyed by fire 1876. Beaver County Historical Research & Landmarks Foundation".

[[Thiel College]] was founded in Monaca in 1866, and moved to [[Greenville, Pennsylvania|Greenville]] five years later. A historical marker on Fourth Street reads: "Site of Thiel College endowed by A. Louis Thiel and founded in 1866 as Thiel Hall by Rev. [[William Passavant]]. Chartered in 1870 as Thiel College of The [[Evangelical Lutheran]] Church with Rev. Henry W. Roth as first president. Moved to [[Greenville, Pennsylvania]], 1871. Beaver County Historical Research & Landmarks Foundation".

In 1892, the borough's name was changed from Phillipsburg to Monaca in honor of the [[Native American Indian]] Monacatootha<ref name="bchistory.org"/> (also known as [[Scarouady]]). Monacatootha ("Great Arrow") was an [[Oneida people|Oneida]] warrior chief and a representative of the [[Iroquois|Iroquois Confederacy]] with the authority to supervise affairs among the [[Lenape|Delawares]] and [[Shawnee]]s in that area.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bchistory.org/beavercounty/BeaverCountyTopical/NativeAmerican/IndianNamesinBCMA97.html |title=Indian Names in Beaver County |access-date=April 28, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150508130045/http://www.bchistory.org/beavercounty/BeaverCountyTopical/NativeAmerican/IndianNamesinBCMA97.html |archive-date=May 8, 2015 }}</ref> He had met with future U.S. President [[George Washington]] in [[Logstown]]. He was a strong friend of the [[English people|English]] and campaigned against the [[French people|French]].