Water Cure Sanitorium

Founded 1848 by Dr. Edward Acker. Used hydrotherapy or water to heal. First hospital in Beaver County. Town's first Post Office, 1856.

Phillipsburg soldiers orphans school founded 1866 by Rev. William Taylor. Destroyed by fire 1876.

Marker is at the intersection of Fourth Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue (Pennsylvania Route 18), on the right when traveling south on Fourth Avenue.