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Fallston is a borough on the west bank of the Beaver River in Beaver County, directly opposite New Brighton and about a mile below Beaver Falls.

Fallston takes its name from a waterfall in the Beaver River, where a dam at the lower falls turned the river's drop into water power.

Fallston was settled in 1796 and incorporated in 1829, with its post office established the same year, on June 25, 1829.

Thanks to that water power, Fallston became the largest manufacturing center of its time in Beaver County, and an 1837 Pittsburgh business directory counted upwards of 1,000 inhabitants working its mills.

The Fallston and Brighton Gazette began publication in Fallston on August 5, 1835, making it one of the earliest newspapers in Beaver County.

A covered wooden bridge built across the Beaver River at Fallston in 1836-1837 opened the borough to heavy wagon traffic.

The 2020 census counted 259 people in Fallston, down from 307 people in 126 households at the 2000 census.

Fallston's children attend school in the neighboring New Brighton Area School District.

Despite sitting just northwest of Pittsburgh and belonging to its metropolitan area, Fallston covers only about half a square mile, part of it river water.