Thank you for stopping by and visiting the American Legion Lowell Beaver Post 470 website.

Lowell Beaver Post 470 was chartered on June 13, 1947. There were 57 chartered members. The first post commander was Stephen W. Rihatican. We presently have approximately 600 Legionnaires that are members of Post 470. American Legion Post 470 namesake Lowell Beaver was born in Fishers, Indiana on January 29, 1918 and graduated from Fishers High School in 1935. He enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps on December 1, 1941. He was assigned as a radio operator on a B17 bomber and held the rank of First Sgt. in the 96th Group, 413th Squadron of the Eighth Air Force. Lowell Beaver was lost in action over the North Sea on March 24, 1945.

Fishers, Indiana, formerly known as Fishers Station and originally as Fishers Switch, came into being in June of 1872 when Salathiel Fisher divided his land into Town lots. Fishers is currently a growing community with a strong history of family values and successful businesses with a population of approximately 66,000 residents. Fishers is located in southeastern Hamilton County, 20 miles north and east of downtown Indianapolis, with convenient access to major transportation routes.

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Preamble to the Constitution
of The American Legion 
For God and Country

We associate ourselves together for the following purposes:

To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America; to maintain law and order; to foster and perpetuate a one hundred percent Americanism; to preserve the memories and incidents of our associations in the Great Wars; to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, state and nation; to combat the autocracy of both the classes and the masses; to make right the master of might; to promote peace and goodwill on earth; to safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles of justice, freedom and democracy; to consecrate and sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.