In an interview with eyewitness Anna Riska (age 101), she recalled a popular bathing beach along the river in East Steubenville, just north of Follansbee.  A June 1915 issue of the city newspaper reported a beach being built by a local swimming club in the La Belle oil field north of town, verifying Ms. Riska’s recollection.

• Anna Riska, telephone interview, June 2008.
• Follansbee Review, “Bathing Beach,” June 11, 1915, front page.
• Follansbee Review, (See “Personal & Local” section, June 18, 1915, p. 8.