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Freedom is a borough in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, on the Ohio River about 25 miles northwest of Pittsburgh.

Freedom was founded in 1832 by Jonathan Betz and Stephen Phillips, co-owners of a steamboat-building business, who bought about 100 acres for $2,000 from General Abner Lacock, and the village that grew around their boatyard was incorporated as the Borough of Freedom on April 16, 1832.

Freedom grew rapidly from about 150 first settlers to roughly 320 people in 40 dwellings by 1833, and about 600 people by 1837.

In 1896, the neighboring borough of Saint Clair merged with Freedom to form 'Greater Freedom'; Saint Clair makes up what is now Freedom's second ward.

In Freedom's early 20th-century heyday, its chief industries were oil production, caskets, and monuments, and the Freedom Oil Works Company — better known as the Valvoline Oil Company — was organized there in 1879.

Freedom's population peaked at 3,060 in 1910 and has declined steadily since; it stood at 1,569 at the 2010 census and 1,496 at the 2020 census.

At the 2000 census, Freedom's 1,763 residents lived in 687 households within the borough's roughly 0.7 square miles, about 18 percent of which is water.

Freedom sits five miles down the Ohio River from Ambridge, where the Harmony Society settled in 1824 after returning to Pennsylvania from Indiana — a separatist German religious group whose offshoot under Bernard Muller helped spur Freedom's founding.

Much of Freedom's housing stock was built before World War II, making it one of the older and more historic small boroughs in the region.