Peters Township

The history of Beinhauer at Peters Township starts as far back as 1946. In that year, Ferd C. Beinhauer, Jr. bought a tract of land in Washington County. The land was nothing more than a field in what was then wilderness and farmland south of Pittsburgh. But Ferd knew that the population of Pittsburgh would expand, and that communities would grow in the south hills. He anticipated the future communities' need for his family's funeral service.

Eventually, this migration did occur. Many people moved away from the smoky city core after World War II, some following US Route 19 south along West Liberty Avenue and Washington Road. Beinhauer had previously taken this route in 1910, opening a chapel on West Liberty Avenue in Dormont.