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Prehistoric sites indicate that pople lived in the vicinity of Beaver during the Fremont period and before. Paiute Indians lived in the area when Anglo-Europeans first arrived in the eighteenth century. In 1776 the Dominguez-Escalante Expedition passed this way. Beaver, Utah, was founded in 1856 by Mormon pioneers. In 1880 the Utah Southern Railroad arrived. It is the birthplace of Robert LeRoy Parker, better known as Butch Cassidy, and Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of the cathode ray tube, which first made television possible.
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